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Surgeon who helped pioneer key CPR technique dies at 87

AP Health News - Fetched: July 28th, 2015, 9:00pm UTC

MIAMI (AP) -- Dr. James Jude, one of the experts credited with pioneering life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation, has died. He was 87....

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Boy who lost hands to infection gets double-hand transplant

AP Health News - Fetched: July 28th, 2015, 9:00pm UTC

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- An 8-year-old boy who lost his hands and feet to a serious infection has become the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant, surgeons said Tuesday....

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FDA approves stomach-filling balloon for weight loss

AP Health News - Fetched: July 28th, 2015, 7:00pm UTC

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health regulators on Tuesday approved an inflatable medical balloon that aids weight loss by filling up space in the stomach....

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Ohio city detects Lake Erie toxins that led to 2014 crisis

AP Health News - Fetched: July 28th, 2015, 5:00pm UTC

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Toledo has detected the first signs in Lake Erie of the dangerous toxin that resulted in a water crisis last year that left 400,000 people in northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan without safe tap water for two days....

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Health care spending to accelerate, US report says

AP Health News - Fetched: July 28th, 2015, 5:00pm UTC

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's respite from accelerating health care costs appears to be over....

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US expects to pay farmers $191 million for birds lost to flu

AP Health News - Fetched: July 28th, 2015, 5:00pm UTC

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The U.S. government expects to spend $191 million to pay chicken and turkey farmers for birds lost to avian flu, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday as he called for Congress to consider a disaster program for poultry producers similar to that for other livestock farmers....

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Boy who lost limbs to infection gets double-hand transplant

AP Health News - Fetched: July 28th, 2015, 3:00pm UTC

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- An 8-year-old Baltimore boy who lost his limbs to a serious infection has become the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant, surgeons said Tuesday....

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Romanian officials raid homes in medicines corruption probe

AP Health News - Fetched: July 28th, 2015, 11:00am UTC

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Romanian prosecutors have searched dozens of home and offices looking for evidence that drug companies offered doctors vacations and other incentives in exchange for prescribing cancer drugs....

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Correction: San Francisco-Soda Warning story

AP Health News - Fetched: July 28th, 2015, 11:00am UTC

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In a story July 26 about a lawsuit against San Francisco by the American Beverage Association, The Associated Press reported erroneously where the city's health warning labels would be posted. The labels are to be placed on advertisements for certain sugary drinks, not on the beverages....

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