Health officials say 14,000 people may have received drugs linked to the national meningitis outbreak, and a Michigan patient is…
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US meningitis death toll rises to 29 with fatality in Virginia
Another patient has died in Virginia after contracting fungal meningitis from potentially tainted steroid injections supplied by a Massachusetts company,…
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2 stem cell patients stop HIV treatment, no virus seen
Two HIV-positive patients in the United States who underwent bone marrow transplants for cancer have stopped anti-retroviral therapy and still…
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Strange condition lets woman hear sounds but not words
A 29-year-old woman developed an extremely rare condition in which she temporarily lost the ability to hear words, though she…
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Cancer that has spread throughout a person’s body is tough to kill without causing too much collateral damage. But tiny…
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4-year-old whose father has bird flu also infected
BEIJING – Chinese health officials say the 4-year-old son of a man infected with a new strain of bird flu…
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Doctors remove 9-pound hairball from teen’s stomach
A Kyrgyzstan teen underwent life-saving surgery to remove a 9-pound hairball from her stomach, Metro reported. Ayperi Alekseeva, 18, was…
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Chandre Oraon is the first to admit life with a tail is far from easy. But the 35-year-old tea picker…
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Boy died and was revived 3 times after car accident
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -On Oct. 19, 1997, Landon Whitley was in the backseat of his parent’s Pontiac Sunfire, riding home from…
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California girl declared brain-dead released to family
A lawyer for the family of a 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead after a surgery said Monday that she…
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