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Also: assessing the danger of controversial avian-flu research; ruling on the responsibility of drug distributors; sugar in kids' diets.
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Also: age and gender differences in heart-attack symptoms; Supreme Court won't hear J&J's patent plea against Abbott; a study of raw milk and food-borne illness outbreaks.
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Also: oral HPV infection rates; Scrushy set to leave prison; Gates Foundation makes big pledge.
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Also: guidelines for developing an artificial pancreas; difficulty in reproducing scientific results; calls for Supreme Court recusals.
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Also: military veterans returning to college; getting smokers to quit; prison doctors paid to deliver mail in California.
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Also: OECD report on health spending; tracking shoppers' biometric responses; statin safety.
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Also: helping truck drivers achieve better health; former Synthes executives sentenced; BMI and post-operative death risk.
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Also: drugs prescribed for kids in foster care; Pfizer settling a U.S. probe into overseas business dealings; more debate on how to control health costs.
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Also: what the Supreme Court may say about the health-care law on Monday; Rick Perry's gaffe, explained by science; alcoholics and liver transplants;
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Also: research suggests a way to test awareness in patients; feds want marketing information from Merck; mental-health budgets cut.
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Also: the children's hospital industry; health-care law may be closer to the Supreme Court; FDA warns on Washington oysters.
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Some 28% of the doctors thought they themselves were practicing more aggressively than they would prefer to.
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Also: new tick-borne illness identified; suits over "all-natural" products; online gamers figure out structure of important HIV protein.
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Only 66 malpractice payments were for more than $1 million, accounting for less than 1% of all payments.
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Also: Prevalence of double chest CTs; boosting breast-feeding; questioning social contagion research