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NEED SURGERY? GOOD LUCK GETTING HOSPITAL COST INFO
CHICAGO (AP) -- Want to know how much a hip replacement will cost? Many hospitals won't be able to tell you, at least not right away - if at all. And if you shop around and find ce...
COURT: CAN HUMAN GENES BE PATENTED?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- DNA may be the building block of life, but can something taken from it also be the building block of a multimillion-dollar medical monopoly? The Supreme Court...
UK STUDY: VIOLENCE MORE LIKELY AMONG VETS, TROOPS
LONDON (AP) -- Young men who have served in the British military are about three times more likely than civilians to have committed a violent offense, researchers reported Friday i...
HOSPITALS SEE SURGE OF SUPERBUG-FIGHTING PRODUCTS
NEW YORK (AP) -- They sweep. They swab. They sterilize. And still the germs persist. In U.S. hospitals, an estimated 1 in 20 patients pick up infections they didn't have when th...
LEAD POISONING TOLL REVISED TO 1 IN 38 YOUNG KIDS
NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials say more than half a million young children are now believed to have lead poisoning in the United States. The figure is roughly twice the previ...
US SUICIDE RATE ROSE SHARPLY AMONG MIDDLE-AGED
NEW YORK (AP) -- The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans climbed a startling 28 percent in a decade, a period that included the recession and the mortgage crisis, the governme...
US HOSPITALS SEND HUNDREDS OF IMMIGRANTS BACK HOME
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital while the American health ca...
STUDY: FISH IN DRUG-TAINTED WATER SUFFER REACTION
BOSTON (AP) -- What happens to fish that swim in waters tainted by traces of drugs that people take? When it's an anti-anxiety drug, they become hyper, anti-social and aggressive, ...
