Extra pounds mean insurance fees for Ala. workers (AP)

AP - Alabama, pushed to third in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat.

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Face transplants can work, studies show (Reuters)

Before and after images illustrate a face transplant performed by Chinese doctors on a 30-year-old mauled by a bear. New faces given to a Chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a French-Caribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work and are not medical oddities, researchers said on Thursday. (The Lancet/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - New faces given to a Chinese man after a
bear tore off part of his face and a French-Caribbean man
disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work
and are not medical oddities, researchers said on Thursday.

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Face transplant patient can smile, blink again (AP)

This undated two picture combo provided by The Lancet, shows an unidentified 29-year-old man with tumors, left, and the same man, right, after a transplanted new lower face from a donor. Transplanting faces may seem like science fiction, but doctors say the experimental surgeries could one day become routine. In papers from two of the world's three teams that have performed partial face transplants, experts said their techniques were surprisingly effective, though complications exist and more work is still needed. In this week's British medical journal The Lancet, Dr. Laurent Lantieri and colleagues reported on their patient's status one year after the transplant. In 2007, Lantieri and colleagues operated on this 29-year-old man with tumors that blurred his features. They transplanted a new lower face from a donor, giving the patient recognizable cheeks, a nose and mouth. Six months later, he could smile and blink. (AP Photo/The Lancet/ho)AP - Transplanting faces may seem like science fiction, but doctors say the experimental surgeries could one day become routine. Two of the world’s three teams that have done partial face transplants reported Friday that their techniques were surprisingly effective, though complications exist and more work is still needed.

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New drug shows promise in cystic fibrosis (Reuters)

Reuters - A new kind of cystic fibrosis drug,
designed to bypass a genetic defect to treat the disease, has
produced promising results in mid-stage clinical trials,
Israeli researchers said on Thursday.

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3.4 Million Seniors Hit Medicare ‘Doughnut Hole’ (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — In 2007, about 3.4 million
Americans enrolled in the Medicare Part D drug plan reached a gap in their
prescription coverage known as the “doughnut hole,” leading some of them
to stop taking prescribed drugs, says a Kaiser Family Foundation study
released Thursday.

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Stress of war may help cause schizophrenia: study (Reuters)

Afghan women clad in burqas walk along a road past destroyed houses in Kabul June 12, 2008. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)Reuters - Pregnant women who live through wars
are more likely to give birth to a child who develops
schizophrenia, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a study
linking prenatal stress with the mental illness.

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Drug Stops Bone Loss From Breast Cancer Chemo (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — Zometa (zoledronic acid)
prevented bone loss at 12 months in premenopausal women undergoing
chemotherapy after they had surgery for early stage breast cancer, a new
study found.

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FDA investigates possible Vytorin link to cancer (AP)

AP - Federal drug safety regulators said Thursday they are investigating whether the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin can increase patients’ risk of developing cancer.

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Jump in US measles cases linked to vaccine fears (AP)

AP - Measles cases in the U.S. are at the highest level in more than a decade, with nearly half of those involving children whose parents rejected vaccination, health officials reported Thursday.

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FDA: Irradiating spinach, lettuce OK to kill germs (AP)

AP - Consumers worried about salad safety may soon be able to buy fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce zapped with just enough radiation to kill E. coli and a few other germs.

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