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  <title><![CDATA[ Cancer Survivor Cut from Youth Basketball Team Finds Another ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ EAGAN, Minn. -- The 13-year-old boy going for a layup at his youth basketball practice, arrived at the Mendota Heights gym through a circuitous route. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu Cluster Reported in NC ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ New Guidelines: Women can get Pap Smears Every Two Years ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (AP) - Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude that is enough to catch slow-growing cervical cancer. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ U. of Neb. Board Votes Down Stem-Cell Rule Changes ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- The University of Nebraska's governing board has voted down a proposal to restrict the school's rules governing embryonic stem-cell research beyond what the federal government allows. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ Great American Smokeout Today ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Today is America's quit day. 
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:04:15 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[ FDA Panel Backs Stronger Benefits of Spiriva ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health experts say an inhaler drug from a German drugmaker works well enough to carry bolder claims about reducing coughing, wheezing and other respiratory problems. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ Mammogram Coverage Won't Change, Companies say ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Insurance companies contacted by USA TODAY say they will continue paying for annual mammograms amid widespread fears that new breast cancer screening guidelines from a federal task force could lead women to lose coverage for those tests. 
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[ Health Care Coverage Could be Extended to Uninsured Americans ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- A senior Democratic leadership aide says legislation headed to the Senate floor would extend health care coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans at a cost of $849 billion over a decade. 
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:26:12 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[ Tamiflu Dose Prices Triple at Some Pharmacies ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Some pharmacies are charging three times what others are for a scarce liquid form of the H1N1 drug Tamiflu used by children, USA TODAY has found. At least two states' attorneys general are investigating. 
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:30:42 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[ Sebelius: Mammograms Still Vital in Saving Lives ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal policy on who should get breast cancer screening has not changed, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday. 
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:18:53 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[ Santa, Helpers Make Plea for H1N1 Vaccine ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ BOSTON, Mass. -- The Swine Flu vaccine is tops on Santa's wish list this Christmas. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ You Don't Have to Gain During Holidays! ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Biggest Loser finalist Julie Hadden and her personal chef, Jessica Bright, visited First Coast News to offer tips on making healthy eating choices this holiday season. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ Heart Disease Found in Mummies, Fast Food Still to Blame? ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ ORLANDO, Fla. -- For years, doctors have been trying to figure out why heart disease is such a problem for so many. It turns out they may have gotten some answers from the past. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ Heart Patients Lacking Vitamin D more Likely to be Depressed  ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ ORLANDO, Fla. -- People with heart disease and similar conditions who don't have enough vitamin D are more likely to be depressed than their counterparts with adequate levels of the "sunshine vitamin," according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ Area Breast Cancer Survivors Upset Over Recommendations ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- New recommendations concerning yearly mammograms are causing a storm of controversy among area breast cancer survivors. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ Groups Debate Change in Mammogram Procedures ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- While one medical organization is suggesting a change in mammogram procedures for women, another says "not so fast." 
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  <title><![CDATA[ New Website Helps Breast Cancer Patients Choose Treatments ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ SAN JOSE, Calif. -- "My initial diagnosis was in 2006 and then again in 2008." Two-time breast cancer survivor Valerie Gardner wants the best treatment available. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ Sexually Spread Diseases Up, Better Testing Cited  ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ ATLANTA, Ga. -- Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting yet another record in 2008, government health officials said Monday. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ FDA to Examine the Safety of Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- FDA officials are asking manufacturers of alcoholic energy drinks to send them the safety data they've collected on the safety of caffeinated alcoholic drinks. 
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  <title><![CDATA[ Questions Arise about Cholesterol Drugs Vytorin, Zetia ]]></title> 
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