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| Fewer teens exposed to tobacco smoke in cars |
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Although fewer kids are being exposed to smoking while riding in cars, more than 20 percent of nonsmoking teens still are, U.S. health officials report.
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| FDA questions Amgen drug for prostate cancer |
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Scientists for the Food and Drug Administration say that an Amgen drug slowed the spread of cancer to the bone in men with hard-to-treat prostate cancer, though the drug did not extend life and carried significant side effects.
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| Rubio pushes back at contraception rules under health care law |
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Sitting in his pew at St. Louis Catholic Church in Miami one recent Sunday, Sen.
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| Your Health CDC: Too many kids breathe others' smoke in cars |
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CHICAGO – Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.
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| Diabetes 'raises birth defect risk' |
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Pregnant women with diabetes are almost four times more likely to have a baby with a birth defect, according to new research.
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| Savannah university to enforce smoke-free campus |
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A Georgia university plans to ban smoking on its Savannah campus later this year.
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| West Nile: It only takes 1 mosquito |
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The state Office of Public Health says that although drought kept the mosquito population down in Calcasieu last year, two people came down with encephalitis or meningitis from the virus.
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| The cost of conscience |
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Two of the top news stories this past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman's right to contraception or abortion.
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