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What Your Patients are Reading: Calcium Supplements May Increase MI Risk in Older Women
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Recent news stories have examined links between calcium supplements and risk for MI, between the combination of ezetimibe and simvastatin and the statin alone, and between gay men and multidrug-resistant CA-MRSA, as well as studying the safety of meat from cloned meats animals, and the creation in a laboratory of a beating rat heart. Medscape Medical News
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China Hails Doctor for Raising Child Virus Alarm
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A strain of hand, foot and mouth disease has killed four more children in China, bringing the death toll in recent weeks to 34, state media said on Friday, as it praised a doctor who alerted authorities to the epidemic. Reuters Health Information
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Longer-Lasting Mosquito Repellents Identified
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Researchers have identified several agents that repel mosquitos up to three times longer than N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET), the most widely used agent in the world, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for May 27. Reuters Health Information
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