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• SAfrican official: Mandela better from pneumonia

  March 30, 2013 in Nation/World JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela is breathing “without difficulty” after having a procedure to clear fluid in his lung area that was caused by pneumonia, the spokesman for South Africa’s … 1

• UK: Queen hospitalized over stomach illness

  March 3, 2013 in Nation/World LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was hospitalized Sunday over an apparent stomach infection that has ailed her for days, a rare instance of ill health sidelining the long-reigning … 2

• Study: People worldwide living longer, but sicker

  December 13, 2012 in Nation/World LONDON (AP) — Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with the diseases and disabilities of modern life, …

• New tests could hamper food outbreak detection

  December 11, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — New tests that promise to speed up diagnosis of food poisoning pose an unexpected problem: They could make it more difficult to identify dangerous outbreaks like the …

• New tests could hamper food outbreak detection

  December 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s about to get faster and easier to diagnose food poisoning, but that progress for individual patients comes with a downside: It could hurt the nation’s ability …

• Gene-altered mosquitoes could be used vs. dengue

  December 6, 2012 in Nation/World KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Mosquito control officials in the Florida Keys are waiting for the federal government to sign off on an experiment that would release hundreds of thousands …

• CDC says US flu season starts early, could be bad

  December 3, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Flu season in the U.S. is off to its earliest start in nearly a decade — and it could be a bad one. Health officials on …

• Med tech in hepatitis C case pleads not guilty

  December 3, 2012 in Nation/World CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A traveling hospital worker accused of stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C through contaminated syringes has pleaded not guilty to the charges in New …

• US flu season starts early, could be bad, CDC says

  December 3, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Flu season is off to its earliest start in nearly 10 years — and it could be a bad one. Health officials on Monday said suspected …

• CDC: HIV spread high in young gay males

  November 27, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say 1 in 5 new HIV infections occur in a tiny segment of the population — young men who are gay or bisexual. The …

• New push for most in US to get at least 1 HIV test

  November 20, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as common as cholesterol checks. Americans ages 15 to 64 should get an HIV test at …

• New push for most in US to get at least 1 HIV test

  November 19, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as common as cholesterol checks. Americans ages 15 to 64 should get an HIV test at … 1

• Meningitis outbreak toll: 419 cases, 30 deaths

  November 5, 2012 in Nation/World An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts. The medication was recalled in late September. Latest numbers …

• Meningitis outbreak toll: 377 illnesses, 29 deaths

  October 31, 2012 in Nation/World An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled. Latest numbers from the …

• Meningitis outbreak toll: 363 cases, 28 deaths

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled. Latest numbers from the …

• Meningitis outbreak toll: 338 cases, 25 deaths

  October 26, 2012 in Nation/World An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled. Latest numbers from the …

• Unprecedented ‘black mold’ meningitis a challenge

  October 25, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The black mold creeping into the spines of hundreds of people who got tainted shots for back pain marks uncharted medical territory. Never before has this particular …

• Mass. pharmacy dodged reprimand after protest

  October 24, 2012 in Nation/World BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts regulators in 2004 proposed a formal reprimand for a company now linked to deadly meningitis outbreak, but they never delivered it after the company protested the … 1

• Meningitis outbreak toll: 317 cases, 24 deaths

  October 24, 2012 in Nation/World An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled. Latest numbers from the …

• Panel: Pregnant women, get whooping cough shot

  October 24, 2012 in Nation/World ATLANTA (AP) — An expert panel is urging every expecting mother to get a shot preventing whooping cough, preferably in the last three months of her pregnancy to help protect …

• State officials find problems at Mass. pharmacy

  October 23, 2012 in Nation/World BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts officials say their preliminary investigation has found problems with cleanliness and sterilization at a pharmacy linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak. They said the problems at …

• Mass. firm in meningitis case: Officials inspected

  October 23, 2012 in Nation/World BOSTON (AP) — An attorney for a Massachusetts company linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak says it’s “hard to imagine” state regulators didn’t know the scale of its operations because … 1

• Mass. gov.: Fungus seen at meningitis-linked firm

  October 23, 2012 in Nation/World BOSTON (AP) — State officials investigating a pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis said Tuesday they found shoddy sterilization practices and unclean conditions there, including debris-covered floor mats …

• Meningitis outbreak toll: 308 cases, 17 states

  October 23, 2012 in Nation/World An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled. Latest numbers from the …

• Meningitis outbreak toll: 297 cases

  October 22, 2012 in Nation/World An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled. Latest numbers from the …

• APNewsBreak: Tenn.’s meningitis has likely peaked

  October 19, 2012 in Nation/World NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s chief medical officer says the rate of new infections from a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak appears to be declining in the state where it was …

• FDA: Fungus in tainted steroids and patients match

  October 18, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The fungus found in tainted steroid shots matches the one behind the national meningitis outbreak that has killed 20 people, federal health officials said Thursday. The …

• Meningitis outbreak deaths rise to 19

  October 17, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Four more people have died in the national meningitis outbreak, bringing the death toll to 19, health officials said Wednesday. The deaths are among the 247 …

• Dirty shoes? How did steroids get contaminated?

  October 16, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Was it some moldy ceiling tiles? The dusty shoes of a careless employee? Or did the contamination ride in on one of the ingredients? There are …

• Meningitis outbreak toll: 231 cases, 15 deaths

  October 16, 2012 in Nation/World An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled. Latest numbers from the …

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