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Study finds most teens vaping fruity flavors, not nicotine

AP Health News - Fetched: August 25th, 2016, 7:00pm UTC

NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials warn that electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices are poisoning kids with nicotine. But new research suggests that most teens arenamp;apos;t vaping nicotine at all but using sweet and fruity flavors like strawberry, chocolate cake and bubble gum....

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UN agency: No confirmed Zika cases linked to Rio Olympics

AP Health News - Fetched: August 25th, 2016, 7:00pm UTC

GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. health agency says reports from national authorities indicate no confirmed laboratory cases of the Zika virus in anyone associated with the Rio Olympics....

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Mylan boosts EpiPen patient programs, doesn't budge on price

AP Health News - Fetched: August 25th, 2016, 11:00am UTC

Mylan is bulking up programs that help patients pay for its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment after weathering heated criticism about an average cost that has climbed more than 600 percent over the past decade....

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Walgreens clinics run by SSM to include birth control

AP Health News - Fetched: August 25th, 2016, 11:00am UTC

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The nonprofit Catholic organization SSM Health says it will provide birth control pills at 26 clinics inside St. Louis-area Walgreens stores that it began operating Thursday....

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Accidental overdoses killed 8 people a day in Ohio last year

AP Health News - Fetched: August 25th, 2016, 11:00am UTC

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Accidental drug overdoses killed 3,050 people in Ohio last year, an average of eight per day, as deaths blamed on the powerful painkiller fentanyl again rose sharply and pushed the total overdose fatalities to a record high, the state reported Thursday....

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Mylan says it will expand programs that lower EpiPen costs

AP Health News - Fetched: August 25th, 2016, 9:00am UTC

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mylan, now in the crosshairs over severe price hikes for its EpiPen, says it will expand programs that lower out-of-pocket costs by as much as half....

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In Iran, unique system allows payments for kidney donors

AP Health News - Fetched: August 25th, 2016, 9:00am UTC

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The whirling hum of a dialysis machine could have been the soundtrack to the rest of Zahra Hajikarimiamp;apos;s life but for an unusual program in Iran that allows people to buy a kidney from a living donor....

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In Iran, unique system allows payments for kidney donors

AP Health News - Fetched: August 25th, 2016, 4:00am UTC

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The whirling hum of a dialysis machine could have been the soundtrack to the rest of Zahra Hajikarimiamp;apos;s life but for an unusual program in Iran that allows people to buy a kidney from a living donor....

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