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Apr 27 2010

Bad habits can age you by 12 years, study suggests (AP)

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Bad habits can age you by 12 years, study suggests
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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 3, 2008 file photo, an employee takes a drag on a cigarette at Morgan's Place bar and restaurant in Harrisburg, Pa. Four common bad habits combined — smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet — can age you by 12 years, sobering new research suggests. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)AP – Four common bad habits combined — smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet — can age you by 12 years, sobering new research suggests.

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Apr 27 2010

Bad habits can age you by 12 years, study suggests (AP)

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Bad habits can age you by 12 years, study suggests
(AP)

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 3, 2008 file photo, an employee takes a drag on a cigarette at Morgan's Place bar and restaurant in Harrisburg, Pa. Four common bad habits combined — smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet — can age you by 12 years, sobering new research suggests. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)AP – Four common bad habits combined — smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet — can age you by 12 years, sobering new research suggests.

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Apr 24 2010

Spanish hospital claims 1st full-face transplant (AP)

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Spanish hospital claims 1st full-face transplant
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In this combo of computer-generated images released by the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain on Friday, April 23, 2010, the various steps undertaken to perform a full-face transplant on a young male patient in late March 2010 are graphically illustrated. The hospital in Spain says it has carried out the world's first full-face transplant, giving a young man who lost his in an accident a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other features. (AP Photo/Vall d'Hebron Hospital) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP – A team of surgeons has carried out the world’s first full-face transplant on a young Spanish farmer unable to breathe or eat on his own since accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago.

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Apr 23 2010

Spanish hospital claims 1st full-face transplant (AP)

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Spanish hospital claims 1st full-face transplant
(AP)

In this combo of computer-generated images released by the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain on Friday, April 23, 2010, the various steps undertaken to perform a full-face transplant on a young male patient in late March 2010 are graphically illustrated. The hospital in Spain says it has carried out the world's first full-face transplant, giving a young man who lost his in an accident a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other features. (AP Photo/Vall d'Hebron Hospital) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP – A team of surgeons has carried out the world’s first full-face transplant on a young Spanish farmer unable to breathe or eat on his own since accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago.

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Apr 23 2010

Spanish hospital claims 1st full-face transplant (AP)

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Spanish hospital claims 1st full-face transplant
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In this combo of computer-generated images released by the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain on Friday, April 23, 2010, the various steps undertaken to perform a full-face transplant on a young male patient in late March 2010 are graphically illustrated. The hospital in Spain says it has carried out the world's first full-face transplant, giving a young man who lost his in an accident a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other features. (AP Photo/Vall d'Hebron Hospital) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP – A team of surgeons has carried out the world’s first full-face transplant on a young Spanish farmer unable to breathe or eat on his own since accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago.

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Apr 22 2010

Sierra Leone polio shots delayed by volcanic ash (AP)

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Sierra Leone polio shots delayed by volcanic ash
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Black volcanic ash lines the banks of a stream, Wednesday, April 21, 2010, south of the Eyjafjallajokull glacier near Hvolsvollur, Iceland.  A volcano erupted beneath Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier covering the region with volcanic ash.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP – The health ministry says a polio vaccination campaign in the West African nation of Sierra Leone is being delayed because of European flight problems caused by volcanic ash.

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Apr 21 2010

Too much salt: Report urges FDA to force rollback (AP)

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Too much salt: Report urges FDA to force rollback
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The Morton Salt distribution facility is seen in Chicago, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Too much salt is hidden in Americans' food, and regulators plan to work with manufacturers to cut back, but the government isn't ready to go along with a major new recommendation that it order a decrease. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP – Too much salt is hidden in Americans’ food, and regulators plan to work with manufacturers to cut back — but the government isn’t ready to go along with a major new recommendation that it order a decrease.

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Apr 20 2010

Study: 2 good choices to prevent breast cancer (AP)

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Study: 2 good choices to prevent breast cancer
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AP – Older women at higher risk for breast cancer now have two good drug options for preventing the disease, but they will have to weigh the trade-offs, a major study shows.

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Apr 18 2010

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Health care fight still rages (AP)

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THE INFLUENCE GAME: Health care fight still rages
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This undated handout frame grab provided by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is taken from a television ad used in tightly contested Congressional districts.  They've merely shifted battlefields. With the reshaping of the country's health care system now law, business, labor, medical, consumer and ideological groups are focused on the regulatory arena. They're also fashioning lawmakers' votes into ammunition for this year's congressional campaigns and beyond. (AP Photo/SEIU)AP – The fight over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul hasn’t ended, it’s simply shifted to a wider arena.

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Apr 16 2010

Experts differ on health risk of volcanic ash (AP)

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Experts differ on health risk of volcanic ash
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Smoke and steam hangs over the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, early Thursday April 15, 2010, which has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. Volcanic ash drifting across the Atlantic forced the cancellation of flights in Britain and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, stranding thousands of passengers. Flights in and out of London Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, were halted, and the shutdowns and cancellations spread to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland. The volcano's smoke and ash poses a threat to aircraft because it can affect visibility, and microscopic debris can get sucked into airplane engines and can cause them to shut down.(AP Photo/Brynjar Gaudi)AP – Europeans should try to stay indoors if ash from Iceland’s volcano starts settling, the World Health Organization warned Friday as small amounts fell in Iceland, Scotland and Norway.

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