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91. U.S. meningitis cases mount; thousands at risk
    Tuesday, October 9, 2012
    NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - More cases of fungal meningitis tied to contaminated steroid shots are expected to be confirmed on Tuesday, U.S. health officials said, and some patients who received the injections may have to wait weeks to know if they are infected.
92. Meningitis outbreak stirs pharmacy oversight calls
    Tuesday, October 9, 2012
    WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak tied to contaminated steroid shots should spur new legislation to regulate how pharmacies mix and dose drugs, experts said on Monday.
93. Nobelist warns of rogue "stem cell therapies"
    Tuesday, October 9, 2012
    HONG KONG (Reuters) - Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka warned patients on Tuesday about unproven "stem cell therapies" offered at clinics and hospitals in a growing number of countries, saying they were highly risky.
94. Mom's fish, mercury intake tied to kids' ADHD risk
    Monday, October 8, 2012
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children's risk of developing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) later on in life may be tied to how much fish their mothers ate while pregnant, according to a new study.
95. Could expired drugs cut the US health bill?
    Monday, October 8, 2012
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It was a few old boxes of medicine in the back of a pharmacy that got Lee Cantrell thinking. With drug shortages and a bloated national health bill, what if expired medications were still effective? What if instead of throwing out the drugs, patients and pharmacists could keep them on the shelves for several more years?
96. 'Better' neighborhood a mixed blessing for youth
    Monday, October 8, 2012
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Moving to a more prosperous neighborhood may help some girls from poor areas feel less distressed, but could harm some boys, a new study suggests.
97. Tomato antioxidant tied to lower stroke risk
    Monday, October 8, 2012
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who love their tomatoes may have lowered odds of suffering a stroke, a study out Monday suggests.
98. UPDATE: Health officials enlist police in growing meningitis scare
    Monday, October 8, 2012
    [Updates "Deadly meningitis outbreak increases to 91 cases," story posted as 20121008elin010 on Oct 8, 2012, with new figures from CDC and efforts in various states.]
99. UK nitrogen cocktail drinker has stomach removed
    Monday, October 8, 2012
    LONDON (Reuters) - British surgeons removed a teenager's stomach to save her life after she drank a cocktail made with liquid nitrogen during a night out with friends, police said.
100. No health risks from Idaho fire radiation: officials
     Monday, October 8, 2012
     SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Smoke from a wildfire in Idaho that burned mining sites with traces of uranium and thorium contained elevated levels of radiation, but none that posed a risk to human health, state officials said on Friday.
101. Reprogrammed cells open new medical window
     Monday, October 8, 2012
     LONDON (Reuters) - The Nobel Prize-winning discovery of how to reprogram ordinary cells to behave like embryonic stem cells offers a way to skirt around ethical problems with human embryos, but safety concerns make their future use in treating disease uncertain.
102. Strawberries likely laid 11,000 German children low
     Monday, October 8, 2012
     BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's biggest outbreak of food poisoning, in which more than 11,000 schoolchildren have been laid low by diarrhoea and vomiting, is "very likely" to have been caused by a batch of frozen strawberries, authorities said on Friday.
103. Deadly meningitis outbreak increases to 91 cases
     Monday, October 8, 2012
     NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Sunday reported an additional 27 cases in a fungal meningitis outbreak linked to steroid injections that has killed seven people and now infected 91 in nine states.
104. When implanted medical devices go wrong, who pays?
     Monday, October 8, 2012
     CHICAGO (Reuters) - Insurance companies, often stuck with the tab for health services when a medical device fails, are ready to share the pain.
105. UK, Japan stem cell scientists awarded Nobel
     Monday, October 8, 2012
     STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists from Britain and Japan shared a Nobel Prize on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed back into embryo-like stem cells that may one day regrow tissue in damaged brains, hearts or other organs.

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