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GlaxoSmithKline has won approval from U.S. regulators to sell its vaccine to fight H1N1, making it the last major drug manufacturer to receive clearance in this country.
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E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.
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Health care, a giant in the U.S. economy, may be a gentle giant when it comes to greenhouse gases.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans. This is one in an occasional Associated Press series on their use and potential risks.
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The American Medical Association on Tuesday voted to oppose the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and declared that gay marriage bans contribute to health disparities.
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Two pregnant North Carolina women died of pandemic H1N1 flu during the week of Oct. 25, state health officials said.
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Sen. Kay Hagan's vote could be vital as Senate leaders try to pass health care reform.
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Last spring, H1N1 flu, also called swine flu, was all over the news. Most people got better after having a fever, sore throat and body aches, similar to the symptoms of the seasonal flu. But some people who have other health problems got very sick.
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The American Medical Association on Monday rebuffed dissident members and voted to stick with support for ongoing health reform efforts, while reiterating wariness over proposals that threaten doctors' pocketbooks and independence.
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British scientists begin a new study on Tuesday to consider how human DNA is used in animal experiments and to determine what the boundaries of such controversial science might be.
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Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries - signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
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In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44.
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Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93.
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Six people went to local hospitals Sunday after exposure to an unknown material at a McDonald's restaurant in Knightdale.
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As if the Taliban, car bombs, roadside bombs, leftover Soviet land mines, political unrest and errant NATO air attacks weren't enough, Afghans are facing a new killer: the H1N1 flu pandemic.
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The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.
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Democrats realize that the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.
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Two pregnant North Carolina women died of pandemic H1N1 flu during the week of Oct. 25, officials confirmed Monday. A spokesman for the state Department of Health and Human Services declined to identify where the two women lived.
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An eye-opening lesson has unfolded for a group of students who set about mapping where to buy healthful food in their community.
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A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.
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