Coffee may brew heart attacks
Wednesday, March 8, 2006 DELTHIA RICKS - - New York Newsday
| Caffeine may escalate the risk of heart attacks in some coffee drinkers, but lower the risk in others, based on the presence of genes that govern whether the body processes the stimulant slowly or quickly, scientists report today.
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23 Bodies Found Around Baghdad; GI Killed
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
AP's ALEXANDRA ZAVIS - - New York Newsday
| A U.S. military patrol and Iraqi police discovered 23 bodies -- many of them handcuffed and strangled -- in various parts of Baghdad, authorities said Wednesday, while bombings, gunfire and other violence claimed at least seven other lives.
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Study Predicts Rise in Overweight Children
Monday, March 6, 2006
AP's DANICA KIRKA - - New York Newsday
| The number of overweight children worldwide will increase significantly by the end of the decade, and scientists expect profound impacts on everything from public health care to economies, a study published Monday said.
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Israel a factor in ports deal
Wednesday, March 1, 2006 Craig Gordon - - New York Newsday
| Senate Democrats yesterday opened a new line of attack against the controversial Dubai ports deal, challenging a top executive of the United Arab Emirates firm to explain that nation's support of a boycott against Israel.
But President George W. Bush showed no signs of backing down, voicing renewed support for the deal yesterday even as a new poll shows seven in 10 Americans oppose it.
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Senators Have New Ports Deal Objection
Wednesday, March 1, 2006 Craig Gordon - - New York Newsday
| Senate Democrats opened a new line of attack Tuesday against the controversial Dubai ports deal, challenging the head of the United Arab Emirates company to explain the nation's support of a boycott against Israel.
But President Bush showed no signs of backing down, voicing renewed support for the deal even as a new poll showed 7 in 10 Americans opposed it. Bush also hit an all-time low approval rating, with 1 in 3 Americans saying he's doing a good job.
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Tax can come as a shock
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 GLENN THRUSH - - New York Newsday
| Rhonda Buckley is barely able to pay her bills, so the $6,000 tax refund she expected this April had already been earmarked for college tuition and improvements on her Dix Hills split-level.
But like 47,000 other middle-class Long Island families, the Buckleys were in for a nasty surprise. They received a $2,600 IRS tax bill - an $8,600 turnaround - courtesy of the despised federal alternative minimum tax.
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Many of Cheney's answers raise more questions
Thursday, February 16, 2006 Craig Gordon and TOM BRUNE - - New York Newsday
| Vice President Dick Cheney's public mea culpa yesterday did little to clear up significant questions surrounding the accidental shooting, including why the White House sat on the story for almost a full day and whether he received preferential treatment from local deputies.
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Shot gives critics ammo
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 Craig Gordon - - New York Newsday
| He had a father-knows-best quality beside a relatively green White House hopeful, the strong-but-silent political type George W. Bush picked to help reassure voters he was up to the job.
In Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush found the traits he valued most - experience, loyalty and absolute discretion, above all - and allowed Cheney to turn the one-time backwater post into the most powerful vice president's office in history.
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Study: Calcium supplements no help
Thursday, February 16, 2006 DELTHIA RICKS - - New York Newsday
| Taking calcium and vitamin D supplements only slightly decreased the risk of hip fractures, had no effect on protecting bones elsewhere in the body and was useless in lowering the risk of colorectal cancer, studies of postmenopausal women have found.
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Schumer makes EPIC request
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 GLENN THRUSH - - New York Newsday
| Sen. Charles Schumer is pressuring Gov. George Pataki to keep 360,000 New Yorkers, most of them from Long Island and the five boroughs, from being moved off the state's popular EPIC drug plan into the trouble-plagued Medicare D program this summer.
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Mental-Health Care Limited for Immigrants
Monday, February 6, 2006
AP's DANIEL CONNOLLY - - New York Newsday
| If Eleazar Paula Mendez suffered from depression, her adopted hometown in southwest Arkansas was not the place to find help: The small community where she is charged with killing her three children has no mental-health professionals who speak Spanish.
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Clinton: Dump drug plan
Friday, February 3, 2006 GLENN THRUSH - - New York Newsday
| Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told Medicare czar Mark McClellan yesterday that the Bush administration's trouble-plagued prescription plan should be scrapped - a suggestion one GOP senator instantly assailed as "below the dignity" of the Senate.
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Nutritionist Campaigning Against Junk Food
Friday, February 3, 2006
AP's ANNE WALLACE ALLEN - - New York Newsday
| As in the rest of the country, Idaho residents are getting fatter. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2003 that nearly 60 percent of adults in Idaho were considered overweight or obese. Rose said one-third of the patients she sees who are at risk for diabetes are under the age of 18.
The Idaho Falls district wellness committee is the result of a federal law that directs all school districts to have a policy in place by the end of June. But the law has no teeth in it; nothing happens if districts don't come up with a plan.
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Disease May Have Caused Lincoln's Gait
Friday, January 27, 2006
AP's AMY FORLITI - - New York Newsday
| Abraham Lincoln's appearance and historical documents that note his especially clumsy gait have long caused researchers to puzzle over whether he may have had a genetic disorder called Marfan syndrome.
Now, members of the beloved president's family tree are wondering if Lincoln had a different, incurable hereditary disease called ataxia that affects the coordination it takes to walk, write, speak and swallow.
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Study: Walking Helps Depressed Patients
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
AP's LIZ AUSTIN - - New York Newsday
| Just 30 minutes of brisk walking can immediately boost the mood of depressed patients, giving them the same quick pick-me-up they may be seeking from cigarettes, caffeine or binge eating, a small study found.
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Study: Not Every Hernia Needs to Be Fixed
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
AP's CARLA K. JOHNSON - - New York Newsday
| Men with hernias but little or no pain can safely go without surgery unless things really start to hurt, a study found. "Not every hernia needs to be fixed," said Dr. Olga Jonasson of the University of Illinois at Chicago, co-author of the study in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Shot in the arm for aspirin users
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 DELTHIA RICKS - - New York Newsday
| Men and women react differently to a host of compounds from alcohol to hormones and now it appears that there is a sharp gender divide when it comes to aspirin, a team of researchers led by a Long Island heart specialist reports today.
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Sniffing out cancer
Friday, January 13, 2006 DELTHIA RICKS - - New York Newsday
| Man's best friend has excelled at sniffing out bombs, contraband and criminals on the run, but scientists now want to know whether canines excel at sniffing out cancer.
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Dems to attack Alito's credibility at hearings
Monday, January 9, 2006 TOM BRUNE - - New York Newsday
| Senate Democrats signaled yesterday they intend to pursue a two-punch attack in confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito this week, criticizing his conservative judicial philosophy as extreme while questioning his credibility as uncertain.
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CDC Report: Down Syndrome More Common
Friday, January 6, 2006
AP's MIKE STOBBE - - New York Newsday
| Down syndrome in the United States is more common than previously thought, at one case for every 733 live births, according to a new government report containing what are regarded as the most reliable estimates yet on the prevalence of 18 types of birth defects.
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Pediatricians Suggest Keeping Kids Active
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
AP's MICHAEL HILL - - New York Newsday
| It's cold. The noon sky is gray and the sledding hill is all ice. Dave Hilderbrandt stands at the crest, watching his 8-year-old daughter and her friend gleefully zoom down on their plastic sled.
Neither cold nor snow can keep the Hilderbrandts from getting regular exercise.
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Flu drug in question
Thursday, December 22, 2005 DELTHIA RICKS - - New York Newsday
| Two Vietnamese patients who were stricken with avian influenza died after their viruses repelled Tamiflu, casting doubts on the reliability of a medication being stockpiled worldwide.
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Congress May Cut Geriatric Care Program
Friday, December 16, 2005
AP's KEVIN FREKING - - New York Newsday
| When a group of older people came to the capital this week to discuss aging issues, they urged the White House and Congress to support geriatric education for health care professionals.
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Experts Urge Less Focus on Antioxidants
Monday, December 12, 2005
AP's J.M. Hirsch - - New York Newsday
| Tired of trying to keep track of all the so-called superfoods you're supposed to eat?
You know, oregano that packs 42 times more antioxidants than apples, cooked tomatoes that may prevent prostate cancer, and chocolate and wine that may or may not be health foods?
Then here's the good news -- you can stop trying.
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Bush Stresses Iraq's Economic Progress
Thursday, December 8, 2005
AP's DEB RIECHMANN - - New York Newsday
| Defending his war policy, President Bush said Wednesday that Iraq is making quiet, steady progress in repairing its shattered economy, though reconstruction "has not always gone as well as we had hoped" because of unrelenting violence.
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Thousands of Babies Have Strokes Annually
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| It looked like a seizure when little Alexzandra Gonzales jerked and then went limp, barely breathing. A frantic race to the hospital led to a diagnosis her parents found hard to believe: Just days before her first birthday, she had had a stroke.
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Professor Loses Weight With No-Diet Diet
Monday, December 5, 2005
AP's BROCK VERGAKIS - - New York Newsday
| When Steven Hawks is tempted by ice cream bars, M&Ms and toffee-covered almonds at the grocery store, he doesn't pass them by. He fills up his shopping cart.
It's the no-diet diet, an approach the Brigham Young University health science professor used to lose 50 pounds and to keep it off for more than five years.
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GOP Governors Hold Line on Iraq
Friday, December 2, 2005
AP's Michael R. Blood - - New York Newsday
| CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Heading into a tough election year, Republican governors attending their annual meeting voiced strong support Thursday for President Bush's stand on the Iraq war and played down his lapsed popularity.
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Exercise Goes High-Tech on Minn. Campus
Monday, November 21, 2005
AP's ELIZABETH DUNBAR - - New York Newsday
| With the click of a mouse, Cassie Pap flips through cable TV channels, her legs pumping away on a recumbent exercise cycle.
She settles for MTV and reaches for the mouse to turn up the volume during her 2-mile workout. On another day, Pap might check e-mail or write a homework assignment using a flexible keyboard that will survive hundreds of sweaty fingers.
Her options are part of the latest technology upgrade on campus: computer-equipped exercise equipment.
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Senate Passes Bill to Shore Up Pensions
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
AP's JIM ABRAMS - - New York Newsday
| Hoping to reverse the deterioration of pension plans covering 44 million Americans, the Senate voted Wednesday to force companies to make up underfunding estimated at $450 billion and live up to promises made to employees.
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Study Questions Health Effects of Decaf
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
AP's MARILYNN MARCHIONE - - New York Newsday
| Fresh questions are percolating about the health effects of coffee, this time the decaffeinated variety. One of the first substantial studies to test it like a drug instead of just asking people how much of it they consumed found higher blood levels of cholesterol-precursor fats in those drinking decaf vs. regular coffee or none at all.
But the differences were very small, especially when compared with the effects of, say, the doughnut that might be dunked into the brew.
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Some Apparently Tortured Detainees Found
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
AP's BASSEM MROUE - - New York Newsday
| Iraq's prime minister said Tuesday that 173 Iraqi detainees -- malnourished and showing signs of torture -- were found at an Interior Ministry basement lockup seized by U.S. forces in Baghdad. The discovery appeared to validate Sunni complaints of abuse by the Shiite-controlled ministry.
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Carbon Dioxide Storage a Success
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
AP's H. JOSEF HEBERT - - New York Newsday
| An experimental project in Canada to inject carbon dioxide into oil fields has proven successful, removing 5 million tons of the heat-trapping "greenhouse" gas, while enhancing oil recovery, the Energy Department said Tuesday.
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Blood Vessels Grown From Patient's Skin
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
AP's MARILYNN MARCHIONE - - New York Newsday
| Two kidney dialysis patients from Argentina have received the world's first blood vessels grown in a lab dish from snippets of their own skin, a promising step toward helping people with a variety of diseases.
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'Promise Broken': N.Y. to Lose 9/11 Aid
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
AP's Devlin Barrett - - New York Newsday
| Congressional budget negotiators have decided to take back $125 million in Sept. 11 aid from New York, which had fought to keep the money to treat sick and injured ground zero workers, lawmakers said Tuesday.
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Saddam Trial to Stay in Iraq
Sunday, November 13, 2005
AP's CHRIS TOMLINSON - - New York Newsday
| Saddam Hussein's trial will resume on schedule despite the slaying of two defense lawyers and the threat by others to boycott the proceedings over an alleged lack of security, a senior Iraqi judicial official said Sunday.
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Report Finds Flaws in Mad Cow Test Program
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
AP's LIBBY QUAID - - New York Newsday
| Government investigators say testing is too slow at times to prevent cattle from eating feed that might be contaminated, just one flaw they cited in a program to help stop mad cow disease from spreading.
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Coffee Might Help Women's Blood Pressure
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
AP's LINDSEY TANNER - - New York Newsday
| Here's good news for women who love coffee: Drinking it doesn't seem to cause long-term high blood pressure, a study suggests.
But for some reason, women in the same study who drank colas did seem to have a greater risk of high blood pressure. Researchers were surprised at that and cautioned that the study wasn't conclusive.
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Cancer Survivors May Not Get Needed Care
Monday, November 7, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| The nation's 10 million cancer survivors require customized follow-up for years that too few now receive, says a major study that calls for oncologists to create a "survivorship plan" to guide every patient's future health care.
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Senate OKs Bill Cutting $36B Over 5 Years
Friday, November 4, 2005
AP's ANDREW TAYLOR - - New York Newsday
| The Senate on Thursday narrowly approved the first cuts since 1997 to benefit programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and farm subsidies, giving Republicans a modest victory against ever-rising government spending.
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Scientists Hope Stomach Can Catch Liars
Friday, November 4, 2005
AP's ALEXANDRE DA SILVA - - New York Newsday
| A group of scientists are turning to people's stomachs to find out if they are telling the truth. A new study by the University of Texas measured electrical impulses in the stomachs of 16 volunteers that were only associated with the act of lying.
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Hip-Waist Ratio Best Predicts Heart Risk
Friday, November 4, 2005
AP's ROBERT BARR - - New York Newsday
| Well-toned hips and a trim waist -- not just the pounds you carry -- appear to be one of the best protections against heart attacks, according to a study of thousands of people in different countries.
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GOP Senator Discourages Alito Filibuster
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
AP's JESSE J. HOLLAND - - New York Newsday
| Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is "clearly within the mainstream" and shouldn't be filibustered, declared a Republican who helped fashion a plan limiting parliamentary roadblocks for judicial nominees.
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Panel Recommends Major Tax Law Overhaul
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
AP's Mary Dalrymple - - New York Newsday
| Declaring the income tax system "has become a running joke," a presidential panel on Tuesday recommended rewriting the nation's tax laws by eliminating virtually every deduction and credit and replacing them with simpler benefits for more taxpayers.
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Government's Dairy Advice Questioned
Sunday, October 30, 2005
AP's MIKE STOBBE - - New York Newsday
| Government dietary guidelines include advice for people with lactose intolerance that note other calcium-containing foods like fish, broccoli and fortified orange juice. But critics say information on milk alternatives is sometimes buried.
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Companies Meet Demands of Snacking Dieters
Friday, October 28, 2005
AP's Candice Choi - - New York Newsday
| The plan was to enjoy a few cookies while watching TV. But by the time Dorine Hanson got up from the couch, she'd polished off the entire bag.
The days of such mindless snacking are history now that Hanson relies on portion-control packs that tell her when it's time to stop.
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Iran Leader Calls for Israel's Destruction
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
AP's NASSER KARIMI - - New York Newsday
| President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Wednesday that Israel is a "disgraceful blot" that should be "wiped off the map" -- fiery words that Washington said underscores its concern over Iran's nuclear program.
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Study: Walking As Good As Jogging
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
AP's NATALIE GOTT - - New York Newsday
| There's no need to run. Just going for a brisk walk -- in the park, around the block or on a treadmill -- may be enough to help keep your heart healthy, a small study suggests.
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Bush: U.S. Must Brace for More Casualties
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
AP's DEB RIECHMANN - - New York Newsday
| With the U.S. military death toll in Iraq poised to surpass 2,000, President Bush on Tuesday warned the nation to brace for an even higher casualty count as the mission there has more work remaining to be successful.
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Taliban-linked drug kingpin headed to U.S.
Monday, October 24, 2005 Patricia Hurtado - - New York Newsday
| An Afghan identified as one of the world's top drug kingpins has been extradicted to New York for prosecution today on charges he imported hundreds of kilos of heroin into the US, telling one co-conspirator that selling heroin in the US ,"was a `jihad' because they were taking the Americans' money and the heroin was killing them."
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New TB Therapy May Halve Treatment Time
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
AP's TERRY LEONARD - - New York Newsday
| A new therapy for treating tuberculosis could cut the current six-month treatment time in half, expand the number of patients and save millions of lives, a nonprofit that seeks treatments for the disease said Monday.
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Feds Prepare for Super-Flu Disaster
Monday, October 10, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| A super-flu could kill up to 1.9 million Americans, according to a draft of the government's plan to fight a worldwide epidemic. Officials are rewriting that plan to designate not just who cares for the sick but who will keep the country running amid the chaos, said an influenza specialist who is advising the government on those decisions.
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Miller Agrees to Testify in CIA Leak Probe
Friday, September 30, 2005
AP's JOHN SOLOMON - - New York Newsday
| After nearly three months behind bars, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released Thursday after agreeing to testify about the Bush administration's disclosure of a covert CIA officer's identity.
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New $10 Bill Gets a Colorful Makeover
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
AP's MARTIN CRUTSINGER - - New York Newsday
| Hooray for the red, yellow and orange! Those are the colors featured on the newly redesigned $10 bill, the third currency denomination to add splashes of color to the traditional green of U.S. currency.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton Seeking Donations
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
AP's MARC HUMBERT - - New York Newsday
| Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is asking her backers to step up their donations, saying opponents of her 2006 re-election effort "will raise and spend hundreds of millions of dollars against me."
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Estrogen Not Effective After Menopause
Monday, September 26, 2005
AP's LINDSEY TANNER - - New York Newsday
| Estrogen pills have little effect on older women's quality of life, fresh evidence from a landmark study shows in yet another blow to the myth that most women need the hormones to feel better after menopause.
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Conn. Enacts Law on Infertility Treatment
Monday, September 26, 2005
AP's SUSAN HAIGH - - New York Newsday
| Teresa Pica-LeRuo thought her dreams of becoming a mother would finally come true this year.
Pica-LeRuo pinned fresh hopes on a new state law requiring insurers to pay for infertility treatments. But the law is the only one in the country that denies benefits to women older than 40, and she won't qualify.
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Blood Vessels Show Effects of Fat in Teens
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
AP's JAMIE STENGLE - - New York Newsday
| Excess body fat in teens -- even those who are not overweight -- seems to be linked to less elastic blood vessels, a condition that can mean future cardiovascular disease, researchers say in a new study.
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Mad-Cow Related Ban to Be Tightened
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
AP's LIBBY QUAID - - New York Newsday
| The United States will close a gap in its defense against mad cow disease by changing feed regulations to mirror those in Canada, FDA Commissioner Lester M. Crawford said Monday.
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Obesity Increases Risk of Miscarriage
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| Pounds can become an obsession during pregnancy, but they should be a concern before conception. Obesity increases women's risk of miscarriage and other serious, even life-threatening, complications.
Dieting during pregnancy is a big no-no -- it can harm the baby.
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Study Says Uninsured Lack Follow-Up Care
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
AP's LINDSEY TANNER - - New York Newsday
| It's not how sick you are but whether you have health insurance that often determines how quickly you can get urgently needed follow-up care after emergency room treatment, a study has found.
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Bounty Placed on Heads of Iraqi Leaders
Monday, September 12, 2005
AP's STEVEN R. HURST - - New York Newsday
| Iraqi insurgents, run out of their northern stronghold in Tal Afar for the second time in a year, counterattacked with an Internet propaganda offensive Monday that put a bounty of about $200,000 on the heads of top Iraqi leaders.
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Headphone Use May Worsen Hearing Loss
Monday, September 12, 2005
AP's Martha Irvine - - New York Newsday
| Everywhere she turns, Angella Day sees people carrying portable music players, often with the ear buds stuffed firmly in place. "They're very widespread," says Day, a senior at Chicago's DePaul University who regularly listens to music on her own iPod while studying or working out. "So addicting."
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Government Eases Rule to Stem Mad Cow
Thursday, September 8, 2005
AP's LIBBY QUAID - - New York Newsday
| The government is easing rules intended to prevent the spread of mad cow disease among people, allowing part of a cow's small intestine to be used as casing for some sausages.
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Will Katrina aid sap 9/11 funds?
Wednesday, September 7, 2005 DAN JANISON - - New York Newsday
| The catastrophe down South not only overshadows the latest commemoration of the 2001 terrorist attacks but threatens funding for at least one 9/11-related project in the city.
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Sodium Nitrate Could Be Disease Cure
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| Could the salt that preserves hot dogs also preserve your health? Scientists at the National Institutes of Health think so. They've begun infusing sodium nitrite into volunteers in hopes that it could prove a cheap but potent treatment for sickle cell anemia, heart attacks, brain aneurysms, even an illness that suffocates babies.
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More Restaurants Offer Gluten-Free Menus
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
AP's SETH SUTEL - - New York Newsday
| As a longtime chef in four-star restaurants, Joseph Pace had seen appreciative customers before. But nothing prepared him for the day that a well-dressed man walked into his Greenwich Village restaurant, ordered a pizza and a beer, and broke into tears.
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Education Could Be Key to Stop Bedwetting
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| To help a 7-year-old overcome bedwetting, Dr. Howard Bennett reaches for red water balloons and a superhero named Bladderman. Bedwetting is a problem for more than 5 million U.S. children age 6 or older.
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Study Links Daydreaming, Alzheimer's
Thursday, August 25, 2005
AP's CHERYL WITTENAUER - - New York Newsday
| Scientists who set out to explore changes in the brain as Alzheimer's disease progresses got a surprise: a possible link between daydreaming and the degenerative brain disease that robs memory, language and thought.
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Report: Obesity Rates Up in Most States
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
AP's KEVIN FREKING - - New York Newsday
| Like a lot of people, the nation's weight problem is settling below its waistline. The states with the highest percentages of obese adults are mostly in the South: Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, Louisiana and Tennessee.
In the entire nation, only Oregon isn't getting fatter.
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