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                  as of Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:59:10 GMT

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AP - A 3-year-old boy died of bird flu in central Indonesia, a senior
 health official said Saturday, citing local laboratory tests.

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AP - A national gay and lesbian group is accusing several religious
 organizations of harming homosexual teens by offering parents what they
 say are bogus therapies to keep children from becoming gay.

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AP - Fifteen states are urging the Supreme Court to take the unusual
 step of immediately intervening to resolve a dispute between states and
 the federal government over the costly new Medicare prescription drug
 program.

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AP - Officials of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced Friday the company will
 reverse its earlier policy and stock emergency contraception pills in
 all of its pharmacies effective March 20, saying the giant retailer
 could not justify being the country's only major pharmacy chain not to
 carry the morning-after pill.

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AP - Parents can sue a doctor if a genetic screening misses a severe or
 fatal condition that would have caused them to seek an abortion, a
 divided state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- Lifting weights twice a
 week can help women prevent "middle-aged spread" and keep their hearts
 healthy, a new study shows.

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HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- For men affected by
 erectile dysfunction, help may be a workout away.

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

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HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- Czech researchers are
 reporting a successful trial of a vaccine for acute otitis media, the
 inner ear condition that is the most common bacterial infection in
 children.

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AP - Texas and four other states sued the federal government Friday,
 alleging they are being forced to help fund the new Medicare
 prescription drug program in violation of the Constitution.

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HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- The drug Erbitux
 (cetuximab) has been approved to treat cancers of the head and neck,
 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced this week.

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