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Recent articles

• FDA reconsiders consumer advice on fish

• New test aims to predict breast cancer risk better

• Study: Small breast tumors may need more treatment

• FDA puts black box warning on bowel-clearing drugs

• Study: Bone drug helps chemo fight breast cancer

• Lancet: Dozens of nations inflated vaccine numbers

• Generic drug prices falling in US

• About 1 in 9 US kids use alternative medicine

• Kids with obesity-linked gene like fattening foods

• Cancer to be world's top killer by 2010, WHO says

• FDA advisers weigh risks of asthma drugs

• Half-dose flu shots work in adults, study finds

• Hong Kong reports bird flu outbreak

• Malaria vaccine shows promise in Africa tests

• Scientists find nutty risk reducer: Eat more nuts

• Study: Gender gap remains for heart attack care

• Obama pledges not to smoke in White House

• Youthfulness an American obsession -- at what cost?

• Scientists back brain drugs for healthy people

• Heart attack patients get 'big chill' treatment

• Horrifying parasitic illness reaches all-time low

• FDA: Risks of new asthma drugs vary

• WHO sets limitations on use of melamine

• Risk assessment for contracting highly pathogenic avian influenza from eating poultry products, shell eggs and egg products

• Good cheer may spread itself, a study suggests

• Measles deaths drop worldwide, report estimates

• Study raps Web sites touting stem cell therapies

• Next week is National Influenza Vaccination Week

• Department on Aging warns seniors to prepare homes and get flu shots

• Report: Young doctors still too tired for safety

• Conjoined twin dies after separation surgery

• 1 in 5 young adults has personality disorder

• Some doctors may give up vaccines because of cost

• Study shows families' financial strain from autism

• Depression leads to internal fat in 70-somethings

• Patient photos aid docs reading faceless CT scans

• Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so

• Swiss approve pioneering legal heroin program

For reference

• Flu shots available at Logan County Dept. of Public Health
  Shots available on H.O.P.E. Mobile

• 'U and the Flu' symptoms chart

• Flu season reminder

• H.O.P.E. December schedule

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