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Update for July 1, 2008 - Case count information as of 9 pm EST, June 30, 2008
CDC is collaborating with public health officials in many states, the Indian Health Service, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate an ongoing multi-state outbreak of human Salmonella serotype Saintpaul infections....
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to the risks of identity theft, the U.S. government isn't taking its own advice.
The nation's Medicare agency and the Pentagon compel at least 52 million Americans to carry their Social Security numbers in their wallets, contrary to warnings by the Federal Trade Commission that people should avoid doing so.
At least 44 million Medicare insura...
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The feelings of well-being and life satisfaction brought on by the hallucinogen psilocybin, found in "magic" mushrooms, can last for months, a new study revealed.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland found that the majority of 36 volunteers who took psilocybin in controlled conditions continued to feel the beneficial effects for more than a year af...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Lawyers defending a former Khmer Rouge foreign minister argued Wednesday that a 12-year-old royal pardon exempts him from prosecution by Cambodia's genocide tribunal.
In a rebuttal, the prosecution said the pardon was improper and should be scrapped.
The United Nations-assisted court has charged Ieng Sary, 82, with crimes against humanity and war ...
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The feelings of well-being and life satisfaction brought on by the hallucinogen psilocybin, found in "magic" mushrooms, can last for months, according to a new study.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland found that the majority of 36 volunteers who took psilocybin in controlled conditions continued to feel the beneficial effects for more than a yea...
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street headed for a higher opening Wednesday ahead of a report on factory orders that could give another glimpse of how the economy is faring.
The Commerce Department is expected to report that factory orders slowed in May as shrinking demand drove up inventories across the country. The report, due at 10 a.m. EDT, is expected to show that orders rose by 0.6 per...
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Weary crews battling wildfires across northern and central California are going to get help from the National Guard, the first time the military has been called to ground-based firefighting duty since 1977.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday ordered 200 guardsmen to report for fire training to begin assisting on the fire lines early next week. The extra han...
Stocks rose slightly in early trading ahead of a report onfactory orders that could give another glimpse of how the economyis faring.
The Commerce Department is expected to report that factoryorders slowed in May due to shrinking demand. The report, due at 10a.m. Eastern time, is expected to show orders rose by 0.6 percent,according to a consensus of Wall Street economists surveyed byThom...
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By Laura MacInnis GENEVA, July 2 (Reuters) - International aid to Africa should be used to boost doctors' salaries and bolster the recruitment and training of medical staff, World Health Organisation (WHO) exper...
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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — South African AIDS patients in Durban are under siege from drug addicts who rob them of their antiretroviral treatment to get high, the provincial health department said Wednesday.
The life prolonging drug Stocrin, one of the antiretroviral drugs used to fight AIDS, is reportedly crushed and mixed with marijuana and sold in the townships around the coastal city...
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Danish health officials fear more than 4,000 people may be infected with salmonella and are checking everything from refrigerators to credit card receipts to find the source of w...
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BOGOTA (AFP) — French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt, three US nationals and 11 Colombian soldiers were rescued Wednesday from FARC rebels in a jungle operation by elite forces, Colombian officials said.
Betancourt, who was seized in 2002 by the Marxist rebels, and the three Americans held since 2003, were rescued in the military and helicopter operation in a region of southea...
VANCOUVER — The future of Vancouver's controversial supervised-injection site is likely headed for the Supreme Court of Canada, says the lawyer representing a group fighting to keep the facility open.
Ottawa has filed its appeal of a B.C. Supreme Court decision that struck down sections of federal drug laws and ensures Insite will remain open as a constitutionally protected health...
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BOGOTA (AFP) — French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, three US nationals and 11 other hostages were rescued from Marxist FARC rebels Wednesday, freed from years in captivity by a daring Colombian military raid.
"I want first of all to thank God and the Colombian soldiers," Betancourt told radio Caracol just hours after she was plucked from the jungle in a military operation...
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