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      <title>Healthcare reform faces challenges in Senate</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama&apos;s U.S. healthcare overhaul plan has cleared an important Senate hurdle but lawmakers warned on Sunday of challenges ahead in winning support for passage, even among Obama&apos;s own Democrats.
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      <title>Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.
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      <title>Vioxx risks could have been detected earlier: study</title>
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       CHICAGO (Reuters) - Heart risks from taking Merck &amp;amp; Co Inc&apos;s painkiller Vioxx could have been detected more than three years before the company withdrew the drug from the market in September 2004, had the data been openly available, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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      <title>Health care reform may hurt hospital credit</title>
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       NEW YORK (Reuters) - High-cost urban U.S. hospitals may face debt rating downgrades if large cuts to Medicare funding are implemented as part of U.S. health care reform, Moody&apos;s Investors Service said on Monday.
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      <title>Psychotropic drugs boost fall risk in the elderly</title>
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       NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new analysis of studies including nearly 80,000 people aged 60 and older confirms that certain types of widely prescribed drugs, such as antidepressants and sedatives, can increase their risk of falling.
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      <title>Texas court tosses state Vioxx suit against Merck</title>
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       NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Texas court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the state against drugmaker Merck &amp;amp; Co that sought a refund for money spent on the withdrawn Vioxx pain treatment, the company said on Monday.
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      <title>Don&apos;t kiss Santa, he may have the flu: Hungary government</title>
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       BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Santa Claus should avoid kissing children and shaking their hands to prevent spreading the flu and should get vaccinated against the illness, Hungary&apos;s state health authority said.
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      <title>Canada stops use of one batch of flu vaccine</title>
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       WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Some Canadian provinces have stopped using a particular batch of the H1N1 flu vaccine after six people experienced severe allergic reactions, the country&apos;s health agency said on Monday.
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      <title>Did U.S. make mistake in skipping vaccine additive?</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. health officials struggle to vaccinate tens of millions of Americans against the pandemic of swine flu, some are looking regretfully at one easy way to instantly double or triple the number of doses available -- by using an immune booster called an adjuvant.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>New guidelines push back age for Pap smears</title>
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       CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women in the United States should start cervical cancer screening at age 21 and most do not need an annual Pap smear, according to new guidelines issued on Friday that aim to reduce the risk of unnecessary treatment.
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      <title>FACTBOX: Winners, losers in Senate health bill</title>
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       (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Senate cleared the first procedural hurdle for sweeping healthcare reform on Saturday by voting to open debate on the historic legislation.
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      <title>FACTBOX: Major differences in House, Senate healthcare bills</title>
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       (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Senate cleared the first procedural hurdle for sweeping healthcare reform on Saturday by voting to open debate on the historic legislation.
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      <title>FACTBOX: Glossary of terms in healthcare debate</title>
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       (Reuters) - The debate over U.S. healthcare reform is full of terms familiar to lawmakers and lobbyists but often obscure to the public.
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      <title>FACTBOX: Details of Senate healthcare reform bill</title>
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       (Reuters) - Democrats in the Senate cleared the first procedural hurdle for sweeping healthcare reform on Saturday by voting to open debate on the historic legislation.
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      <title>Healthcare bill poised to pass Senate test</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A broad healthcare overhaul was poised to clear its first Senate hurdle on Saturday as the last wavering senators said they would vote to begin debate on the legislation, giving Democrats the 60 votes they need.
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      <title>Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana shops</title>
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       LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Past the security man and his pit bull and through a haze of eye-watering smoke, two youths load up a pipe next to a row of shiny glass jars with two dozen varieties of marijuana bud displayed like candy.
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      <title>Moderate Democrat boosts Senate health bill</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of three wavering U.S. Senate Democrats said on Friday he would vote to start the chamber&apos;s healthcare debate, bolstering the chances for a broad reform bill one day before its first crucial test.
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      <title>Funeral workers risk cancer from formaldehyde</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Morticians who use formaldehyde to embalm bodies have a higher risk of leukemia, researchers reported on Friday.
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      <title>Swine flu may be peaking in U.S.</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the United States, health experts said on Friday.
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      <title>Eat and drink your way to a healthy colon?</title>
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       NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eating fruits and vegetables, and drinking tea and red wine may offer overweight men and normal weight women some protection from colon and rectal cancers, hint study findings from the Netherlands.
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