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151. Conservative US fund backs Akin despite rape remarks
     Thursday, September 27, 2012
     KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - A conservative fundraising group on Thursday endorsed Todd Akin in a key U.S. Senate race in Missouri and pledged over $290,000 to his campaign in a sign more Republicans are coming to his aid despite his inflammatory comments about rape.
152. Up to 700,000 Syrians may flee by year-end -UNHCR
     Thursday, September 27, 2012
     GENEVA (Reuters) - Up to 700,000 Syrian refugees may flee abroad by the end of the year, the U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday, nearly quadrupling its previous forecast for the exodus from the deepening crisis.
153. Poor HIV patients live longer with care beyond drugs
     Thursday, September 27, 2012
     WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Patients stepping into Johns Hopkins University's HIV clinic in east Baltimore don't just see a doctor or get prescriptions for their antiretroviral drugs; many also get help finding a place to live or bus fare to make it to their next appointment.
154. Diagnosis of rare brain disorder may take months
     Thursday, September 27, 2012
     NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors often initially misdiagnose people with Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, a rare brain disorder caused by misfolded, infectious prion proteins, according to new research.
155. Americans urged to get vaccine as flu season nears
     Thursday, September 27, 2012
     WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials urged more Americans on Thursday to get vaccinated against influenza for the upcoming flu season, adding there was plenty of vaccine on hand.
156. Feeling stressed out tied to heart disease risk
     Thursday, September 27, 2012
     NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who report feeling high levels of stress in their daily lives are more likely to develop heart disease than those who don't experience as much stress, according to a new review of earlier studies.
157. Fear, suspicion in Pakistan slow global polio fight
     Thursday, September 27, 2012
     LONDON/PESHAWAR (Reuters) - When Bill Gates hears about children like Fahad Usman, a two-year-old Pakistani boy crippled by polio before he learned to walk, the billionaire philanthropist sounds frustrated and fired up.
158. Spike in heart failures follows Japan's 2011 quake
     Thursday, September 27, 2012
     NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Following the massive earthquake and tsunami of March, 2011, which devastated parts of eastern Japan, the number of heart failure cases spiked in Miyagi Prefecture and remained elevated for six weeks, according to a new study.
159. Looking for a good doctor? Good luck
     Thursday, September 27, 2012
     NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Dr. Marty Makary was a medical student, staffers at the Boston hospital where he was training had a nickname for one of its most popular surgeons: Dr. Hodad.
160. Several ill in Canada after eating steaks
     Thursday, September 27, 2012
     (Reuters) - Several people became ill after eating steaks that may contain E. coli bacteria sold at a store in Edmonton, Alberta, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Wednesday.
161. Warnings to at-risk drivers reduce vehicle crashes
     Wednesday, September 26, 2012
     NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A system where doctors routinely reported drivers who might be impaired by chronic illness cut the risk of car crashes by 45 percent in a new study from Ontario, Canada.
162. Texas seeks to learn from West Nile virus "disaster"
     Wednesday, September 26, 2012
     DALLAS (Reuters) - When Dr. Robert Haley spotted a dead blue jay lying in his neighbor's driveway early this summer he became suspicious. When he saw another blue jay dead in the birdbath at his Dallas home the next morning, he knew it was a bad omen of disease.
163. U.S. cites three more countries for child labor
     Wednesday, September 26, 2012
     WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Wednesday added South Sudan, Suriname and Vietnam to its list of 74 countries where adults and children as young as five are subjected to serious labor and human trafficking abuses in prostitution, mining and other dangerous work.
164. More Americans getting pacemakers
     Wednesday, September 26, 2012
     NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of Americans getting pacemakers implanted has risen in the past two decades - and the recipients are increasingly older and sicker, a new study finds.
165. Haiti PM says cholera outbreak under control
     Wednesday, September 26, 2012
     UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed thousands and been blamed on U.N. peacekeepers was "regrettable" but has been brought under control, the prime minister of the poor Caribbean nation said at the United Nations on Wednesday.

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