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Parainfluenza can be dangerous to young kids
WSBT-TVDoctors are always telling people to get a flu shot, especially children and the elderly, but that vaccination, while helpful, doesn't always guarantee you'll avoid coming down with certain flu-like symptoms. “In the blink of an eye your child can...Tags: Disease Prevention, Flu Vaccine, Swine Flu, Coughing, Diseases and Illnesses
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Holiday sales to rise 4.1 percent
Associated PressNEW YORK – Americans are expected to spend more during what's traditionally the busiest shopping season of the year, but they're not exactly ready to shop 'til they drop like they have been in the past two years. The National Retail Federation, the...Tags: Gallup, Inc., National Retail Federation, Washington, DC, Consumer Confidence, Economic Indicator
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Study: 6 pounds of bacteria live on 200-pound person
WASHINGTON (AP) — They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut — enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds. Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or...
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U-M: 6 new stem cell lines available for research
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Six new human embryonic stem cell lines derived at the University of Michigan are available for federal research. University of Michigan Health System officials say in a release Thursday that researchers can begin using...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Huntington's Disease, Hemophilia, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses
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Study of 'meth babies' finds behavior problems
CHICAGO (AP) — The first study to look at methamphetamine's potential lasting effects on children whose mothers used it in pregnancy finds these kids at higher risk for behavior problems than other children.
The behavior differences —...Tags: Social Sciences, Research, Cocaine, Substance Abuse, Arts and Culture
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US says don't publish recipe for lab-bred bird flu
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have genetically engineered bird flu so it can spread easily between mammals — work necessary to prepare in case the dangerous virus ever mutates on its own and spreads from person-to-person. Now the U.S....Tags: Genetic Engineering, Washington, DC, Bird Flu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Flu
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Notre Dame involved with $500K grant to fight colorectal cancer
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A statewide research center is expanding the fight against colorectal cancer into rural and suburban communities in north central Indiana. The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute says it has received a $500,...Tags: University of Notre Dame, Colon Cancer, Purdue University, Science, Diseases and Illnesses
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Half of teens shy, but for a few it's more serious
WASHINGTON (AP) — Does your teen show normal nerves about the weekend party, or always stay home? Nearly half of teenagers say they're shy, perhaps a bit surprising in our say-anything society. But a government study finds a small fraction of those...Tags: Social Sciences, Washington, DC, Harvard Medical School, Duke University, Depression
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Experts say cellphones are possibly carcinogenic
LONDON (AP) — An international panel of experts says cellphones are possibly carcinogenic to humans after reviewing details from dozens of published studies.
The statement was issued in Lyon, France, on Tuesday by the International Agency for...Tags: X-rays, Tumors, Science and Technology, Brain, Radio
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Ohio State studies symptoms of cat stress, disease
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's not just people who get sick from stress. A recent Ohio State University study found that healthy cats show signs of illness when stressed. At the same time, cats diagnosed with feline interstitial cystitis (FIC) became...Tags: Los Angeles, Bladder, Science and Technology, Timonium, The Ohio State University
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Study: Spacing babies close may raise autism risk
CHICAGO (AP) — Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children. Children born less than two years after their siblings were...Tags: Columbia University, Preventative Medicine, Autism, Science and Technology, California
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Highlights of Obama's $3.73 trillion budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — A look at what President Barack Obama has requested in his $3.73 trillion budget for the 2012 fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. ____ Agency: Agriculture Spending: $145.6 billion Percentage Change from 2011: 1.5 percent decrease...Tags: Republican Party, Elections, Finance, Local Government, NASA
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