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Brand-name drug prices continue growing (AP)
AP - Drug makers increased their prices last year by an average of 7.4 percent for brand-name medicines most commonly prescribed to the elderly, according to the advocacy group AARP.
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Brand-name drugs continue brisk increase (AP)
AP - Drug makers increased their prices last year by an average of 7.4 percent for brand-name medicines most commonly prescribed to the elderly, according to the advocacy group AARP.
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Flat growths may be worse than polyps (AP)
AP - Flat growths on the colon wall are more common in Americans than previously thought and more likely to be cancerous than the more familiar knobby masses known as polyps, a new study finds.
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Some experts doubt obesity epidemic (AP)
AP - Go on, have another doughnut. According to some experts whose views are public health heresy, the jury is still out on how dangerous it is to be fat. “The obesity epidemic has absolutely been exaggerated,” said Dr. Vincent Marks, emeritus professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Surrey.
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Substance Abusers With PTSD Face Poorer Outcomes (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 4 (HealthDay News) — A new study offers more
evidence of a strong association between post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) and substance abuse.
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