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AP - The spring migration of birds from Asia to Alaska is expected to
 start next month, and this year it will encounter a beefed-up federal
 effort to look for bird flu.

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AP - The H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in a weasel-like mammal
 called a stone marten, a German laboratory said Thursday, indicating
 the disease has spread to another animal species.

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AP - Like no war before, the war in Iraq has seen unprecedented numbers
 of injuries due to surprise bomb attacks. And like no other war before,
 troops are often surviving those attacks, though many of them lose
 limbs or suffer severe burns. That has led researchers to create the
 Soldier Treatment and Regeneration Consortium with the goal of growing
 back body parts, like ears and fingers, and treating burns.

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AP - Thalidomide, a drug that caused ghastly birth defects a generation
 ago but has been resurrected in recent years as a promising cancer
 treatment, failed in a study to prolong the lives of patients with
 multiple myeloma.

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AP - A multiple sclerosis drug pulled from the market a year ago because
 of a rare but life-threatening side effect is on track to return -- but
 with some strong restrictions on how it's used.

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AP - Volunteers 100 or more pounds overweight will test various
 combinations of diet, exercise and medication in search of a
 non-surgical "gold standard" of treatment for the severely obese.

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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- In a pair of studies
 on hepatitis B, researchers from around the world have found the
 medication entecavir is more effective than the commonly used drug
 lamivudine in managing the liver disease.

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HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Strep throat is most common in children
 aged 5 to 15, but people younger or older get it, too.

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AFP - Inhaling fine solid and liquid particles that pollute the air,
 even briefly, increases hospital admissions among the elderly for
 cardiovascular and respiratory problems, said a study.

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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- Experts say it may
 take the illness and death of Dana Reeve, widow of actor Christopher
 Reeve, to finally swing attention to lung cancer's grim toll on women
 -- even women who, like Reeves, never smoked.

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