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FDA APPROVES RETURN OF DRUG FOR MORNING SICKNESS
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Talk about a comeback: A treatment pulled off the market 30 years ago has won Food and Drug Administration approval again as the only drug specifically designate...

HUGE DRUG COST DISPARITIES SEEN IN HEALTH OVERHAUL
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cancer patients could face high costs for medications under President Barack Obama's health care law, industry analysts and advocates warn. Where you live cou...

AFTER A DECADE, GLOBAL AIDS PROGRAM LOOKS AHEAD
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads. The dream of future generations freed from epidem...

STUDY QUESTIONS KIDNEY CANCER TREATMENT IN ELDERLY
In a stunning example of when treatment might be worse than the disease, a large review of Medicare records finds that older people with small kidney tumors were much less likely t...

C. EVERETT KOOP, 'ROCK STAR' SURGEON GENERAL, DIES
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor- even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general. Koop, who died...

NYC APPEALS RULING STRIKING DOWN SODA SIZE LIMIT
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City is asking appeals judges to reinstate a ban on supersized sodas and other sugary drinks, which was struck down by a Manhattan judge the day before it...

Report finds lax oversight of specialty pharmacies
WASHINGTON (AP) - A congressional investigation finds that specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak last year have little state oversight. ...
CLUES TO WHY MOST SURVIVED CHINA MELAMINE SCANDAL
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists wondering why some children and not others survived one of China's worst food safety scandals have uncovered a suspect: germs that live in the gut. ...