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The Associated Press In a story Oct. 26 about Cologuard, a new DNA test for colon cancer screening, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the test was approved in September and was not yet available…
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PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The father of a Connecticut third-grader filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday saying his daughter has been unfairly barred from school amid fears she may have been exposed…
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GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss agency that regulates new drugs said Tuesday it has approved an application for a clinical trial with an experimental Ebola vaccine at the Lausanne University Hospital. Swissmedic said the trial…
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MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are recommending that people who are at highest risk for coming down with Ebola avoid commercial travel or attending large public gatherings, even…
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JIM CARLSON Associated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State safety Ryan Keiser was recovering in a hospital on Tuesday after having surgery to repair a bowel injury suffered when he fractured a rib…
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ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military chiefs recommended to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday that he require all troops returning from Ebola response missions in West Africa be…
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kbender SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Sacramento obstetrician is getting a late thank you from a baby he delivered 45 years ago. The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/ZYGTtK) that Robert Kincade performed heart surgery on the…
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JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the United States can’t be seen as shying away from battle against Ebola and must support health care workers who are returning…
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The U.N.’s top Ebola official in West Africa says authorities are having trouble figuring out how many more people are getting Ebola in Liberia and in Sierra Leone — and pinpointing…
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BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland panel on medical marijuana is looking at adjusting fees for growers, dispensers and patients, which critics say are too high. The commission, which did not…
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BABA AHMED Associated Press KAYES, Mali (AP) — After 2-year-old Fanta Kone’s father died in southern Guinea, the toddler’s grandmother took her from the forested hills where the Ebola outbreak first began months ago to…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is defending his state’s decision to impose a mandatory quarantine on medical workers and other arriving airline passengers who’ve had contact with Ebola victims in West Africa.…
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CHRIS BRUMMITT Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — The longer the Ebola outbreak rages in West Africa, the greater chance a traveler infected with the virus touches down in an Asian city. How quickly any case…
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MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu has doubled down on her support for the federal health care law even as polls show the revamp remains unpopular in Louisiana…
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