1. New Drug Could Work Against Leukemia (HealthDay)

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...HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new targeted therapy shows promise in treating acute myeloid leukemia, a highly treatment-resistant blood cancer, according to ...

2. Multaq Sanctioned for Heart Rhythm Disorders (HealthDay)

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...HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Multaq (dronedarone) tablets have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to promote a normal heart rhythm in peop...

3. Clinical Trials Update: July 2, 2009 (HealthDay)

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...HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch and ClinicalConnection.com: ...

4. Scrub tech may have exposed thousands to hepatitis (AP)

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...AP - A former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic, fe...

5. SKorea to buy vaccine for quarter of population (AFP)

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...AFP - South Korea's health ministry announced it would spend 193 billion won (152 million dollars) to secure vaccines against swine flu for 13 million people -- more than a quarter...

6. U.S. parents think twice about sending kids to camp (Reuters)

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...Reuters - Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the c...

7. WHO sees swine flu tailing off in summer (AFP)

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...AFP - The World Health Organisation still expects the swine flu pandemic to subside in the northern hemisphere over the summer, despite its persistence in the likes of the United S...

8. Sickle cell disease healthcare costs high in U.S. (Reuters)

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...Reuters - A new study shows that the annual cost of medical care in the US for people who suffer from sickle cell disease exceeds $1.1 billion. ...

9. Botched circumcisions leave 31 dead in S.Africa (AFP)

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...AFP - Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on Friday. ...

10. New Weapons in Fight Against TB? (HealthDay)

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...HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- Extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis might someday meet its match in two drugs now used to treat Parkinson's disease, suggests a new...