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The aggressive antibiotic-resistant staph infection responsible for thousands of recent illnesses undermines the body’s defenses by causing germ-fighting cells to explode, researchers reported Sunday. Experts say the findings may help lead to better...
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The Maine artist who brought LOVE to the world is doing the same with HOPE.
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A small plane overshot a runway and crashed into some power lines near Bob Hope Airport. Three people inside the aircraft were injured, authorities said.
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AP, Miami
The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Gustav gained strength to become a Category 2 storm with winds near 100 mph.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will be among the speakers at a memorial service Saturday for the late U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of the Cleveland...
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A co-defendant in the bizarre bank robbery plot that led to the collar-bomb death of a Pennsylvania pizza delivery man more than five years ago will plead guilty next...
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A small airplane crashed into a parked car near Bob Hope Airport Friday evening, seconds after a woman inside the vehicle saw the plane coming and fled.
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A train slammed into a propane tanker truck in north-central Oklahoma on Friday, triggering a huge explosion that killed two people and injured a third, authorities...
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President Bush witnessed cannons firing, guns flinging and heavy marching at a Marines parade Friday night while visiting their barracks.
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Attorneys for a polygamous church sued a court-appointed accountant on Friday, seeking to reverse an $8.8 million judgment against its $110 million property trust.
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Two airliners were one minute from colliding when at least one of the planes turned away from the other over the Atlantic Ocean this week, federal authorities said...
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DNA evidence has linked an air conditioning repairman to the stabbing deaths of three women, including a former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, police said Friday.
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AP, Cape Canaveral
NASA’s staff will study whether the space shuttle program could continue operating past its scheduled retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail sent...
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AP, Montreal
A provincial health official says that an unusually high number of people have fallen ill with salmonella food poisoning across Quebec.
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AP, Orlando
The mother of a missing Florida toddler being put behind bars again.
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AP, Providence
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence will pay $1.3 million to four people who said they were abused by priests, lawyers announced Friday.
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AP, Toronto
Canada’s prime minister will likely schedule an election in October to try to shore up his minority government, a senior official in his office said Friday.
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Fuel prices have grounded an unexpected frequent-flyer: Diddy.
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Bacterial contamination has been found in well water at a northeast Oklahoma restaurant linked to an E. coli outbreak that killed a man and sickened dozens of others,...
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A judge on Friday accepted a plea deal that reduced the murder charge for a software programmer who led authorities to his wife’s body after his initial...
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The Republican National Committee on Friday made its penalties stick against South Carolina, New Hampshire, Florida and Michigan for holding primaries earlier than...
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AP, New York
New data shows New York City residents are contracting the virus that causes AIDS at three times the national rate.
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AP, Washington
Infections may play a bigger role in premature birth than doctors have thought, says a new study that found almost one in seven women in preterm labor harbored bacteria...
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AP, Atlanta
The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported Sunday,...
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AP, Singapore
Singapore recorded 422 new HIV infections last year, the highest number in a single year since records started in 1985, the city-state of 4.5 million people said...
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Infections are caused by microscopic organisms such as bacteria , viruses and fungi and hence we can’t see them spread .There are billions of harmless micro...
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AP, Chicago
Just in time for runny nose season, new research suggests routine sinus infections aren’t really helped by antibiotics and other medicine that’s often...
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AP, Atlanta
Advocacy groups say new government estimates will show at least 35 percent more Americans are infected with the AIDS virus each year than the government has been...
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AP, Atlanta
Federal health officials are revising their estimate of how many people are infected by HIV each year, and advocacy groups say the number could rise by 35 percent or...
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AP, Washington
Drug-resistant staph infections that have made headlines in recent weeks come from what the nation’s top doctor calls “the cockroach of bacteria” _ a...
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AP, White Plains
A former college football player has sued Iona College over an antibiotic-resistant staph infection he says nearly cost him his leg two years ago.Nick Zaffarese accused...
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AP, Chicago
Testing all new hospital patients for a dangerous staph “superbug” could help wipe out a germ that likely kills more Americans than AIDS, consumer advocates...
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AP, White Plains
Nine athletes and a coach at Iona College contracted an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, which has spread through schools nationwide, health officials said...
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AP, Chicago
Good hygiene is the best way to avoid infection from a potentially dangerous drug-resistant germ called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. A new...
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More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph “superbug,” the government reported in its first overall...
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An outbreak of E. coli has sickened at least 10 people, including seven schoolchildren, and officials have ruled out school cafeteria food as a source.All the people...
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A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children is also having an unfortunate effect: promoting new superbugs that cause ear...
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Nutritional food consumed during women’s menstruation cycle reduces the risk of various infections and allergies according to Germany’s Munich-based...
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Childhood leukemia has increased five-fold since the early 1900s! And the scientists are blaming pesticides or chemicals in the environment as the main culprits behind...
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