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Filipina with upside-down feet walks for 1st time
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AP - A Filipino teenager who came to New York so doctors could perform surgery to untwist her severely clubbed feet took her first unaided steps Wednesday in pink-and-white sneakers — the first shoes she's ever worn.
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First floods, now pesky mosquitoes for Midwest
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AP - First came the floods — now the mosquitoes. An explosion of pesky insects are pestering clean-up crews and just about anyone venturing outside in the waterlogged Midwest.
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AP - Diabetes drugs should face tougher safety standards that could cost manufacturers millions but protect patients from unforeseen heart risks, a government panel has recommended.
Read FDA panel urges more testing for diabetes drugs (AP) (Links)
Reuters - Paradoxically, obesity may offer some protection against heart-related "events," like heart attack, in people who have a stent placed to prop open a clogged coronary artery, research shows.
Read Obesity may offer some protection after stenting (Reuters) (Links)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- As a caregiver of someone with Alzheimer's, administering their medication -- and preventing missed pills or the wrong dosages -- can be a daunting responsibility.
Read Health Tip: Giving Medications to People With Alzheimer's (HealthDay) (Links)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Smokeless tobacco products (STPs), which include products such as snuff and chew tobacco, do increase the user's risk of cancer -- just not as much as smoking does.
Read Smokeless Tobacco Products Do Raise Cancer Risk (HealthDay) (Links)
AP - Danish health officials fear more than 4,000 people may be infected with salmonella and are checking everything from refrigerators to credit card receipts to find the source of what may be the worst outbreak in 15 years.
Read More than 4,000 Danes may have salmonella (AP) (Links)
Reuters - Secondhand exposure to cigarette smoke is an asthma trigger in children and a new study shows that smoking by the primary caregiver and daycare provider are important sources of smoke exposure in children with asthma.
Read Caregivers often expose asthmatic kids to smoke (Reuters) (Links)
Salmonella probe adds foods served with tomatoes
(AP)
AP - Adding to tomato confusion, the government is about to start testing numerous other types of fresh produce in the hunt for the source of the nation's record salmonella outbreak — even as it insists tomatoes remain the leading suspect.
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HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- A new questionnaire may help in both diagnosing older adults facing dementia and also in identifying individuals who need help with daily living.
Read Mental Test Spots Alzheimer's Risk (HealthDay) (Links)
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