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1st legal medical pot sold in Nevada 15 years after approval

AP Health News - Fetched: July 31st, 2015, 10:00pm UTC

SPARKS, Nev. (AP) -- Fifteen years after Nevadans voted to legalize it, medical marijuana was sold legally in the state for the first time Friday at a dispensary in a strip mall about 5 miles east of downtown Reno....

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Correction: Colorado Fluoride Debate story

AP Health News - Fetched: July 31st, 2015, 6:00pm UTC

DENVER (AP) -- In a story July 30 about a debate over adding fluoride to public drinking water, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of the director for the Fluoride Action Network. His name is Paul Connett, not Paul Commett....

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Experimental Ebola vaccine could stop virus in West Africa

AP Health News - Fetched: July 31st, 2015, 4:00pm UTC

LONDON (AP) -- An experimental Ebola vaccine tested on thousands of people in Guinea seems to work and might help shut down the waning epidemic in West Africa, according to interim results from a study published Friday....

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UN Ebola mission winds down, WHO takes reins in West Africa

AP Health News - Fetched: July 31st, 2015, 8:00am UTC

LONDON (AP) -- The United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response is officially winding down Friday, handing its leadership role and senior staff to the Geneva-based World Health Organization as efforts to contain the deadly virus continue....

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Once a sideshow, former preemies praise doctor years later

AP Health News - Fetched: July 31st, 2015, 8:00am UTC

LONG BEACH, N.Y. (AP) -- At age 95, Lucille Horn often reflects on her long, full life, with a husband and five children, and how it might not have happened if not for the renegade doctor who put her in a Coney Island sideshow when she was just days old....

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Lawsuit accuses CVS of overcharging for generic drugs

AP Health News - Fetched: July 31st, 2015, 12:00am UTC

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- CVS Health Corp. deliberately overcharged some pharmacy customers for generic drugs by submitting claims to their insurance companies at inflated prices, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in San Francisco....

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