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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...

CATHOLIC HOSPITAL TAKES SURPRISE STANCE IN LAWSUIT
DENVER (AP) -- It was a startling assertion that seemed an about-face from church doctrine: A Catholic hospital arguing in a Colorado court that twin fetuses that died in its care ...

WOMAN WHO SMOKED THROUGH HOLE IN THROAT DIES
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A woman who smoked a cigarette through a hole in her throat to illustrate her struggle with nicotine addiction in a California public service advertisement has ...
NEW WHOOPING COUGH STRAIN IN US RAISES QUESTIONS
NEW YORK (AP) -- Researchers have discovered the first U.S. cases of whooping cough caused by a germ that may be resistant to the vaccine. Health officials are looking into whet...

MEASLES SURGES IN UK YEARS AFTER FLAWED RESEARCH
LONDON (AP) -- More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to a...

SCIENTISTS SAY BABY BORN WITH HIV APPARENTLY CURED
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2 ...

A BIT SLIMMER: CHRISTIE HAS WEIGHT-LOSS SURGERY
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Gov. Chris Christie, who once famously called himself "the healthiest fat guy you've ever seen," disclosed Tuesday he had secretly undergone weight-loss surger...

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...