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Yahoo! Daily News Digest: Health News for Monday, November 19, 2007 12:00 AM PSTParents ordered to court for kids' shotshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=1&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_re_us/shots_getting_toughAP - Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:32 pm PSTHundreds of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle.McCain calls for drug reimportationhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=2&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_prescription_drugsAP - Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:58 am PSTRepublican presidential contender John McCain on Saturday said he wants to again allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada as a way to bring health care costs under control.UK fat patients claim discriminationhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&e=3&u=/ap/20071116/ap_on_he_me/britain_fat_patientsAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:47 pm PSTFor two years, Frances Kinley-Manton says she lived with arthritis pain in her hips, a condition that kept her in a wheelchair. She wanted hip replacement surgery. But doctors at Britain's National Health Service said she was too fat for the operation. "They wouldn't even put me on a waiting list," Kinley-Manton recalled.Atty: Woman wasn't told donor was a riskhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=4&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_re_us/aids_transplantsAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:55 pm PSTA woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high risk, and had previously rejected another donor "because of his lifestyle," her attorney said.Formerly conjoined twins doing very wellhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&e=5&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_he_me/conjoined_twinsAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:45 pm PSTFormerly conjoined twins have "excellent" chances of survival after a grueling separation surgery, and one of the toddlers is even breathing on her own, doctors said Friday.Infants of obese mothers have higher mortality riskhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=6&u=/nm/20071117/hl_nm/infants_obese_dcReuters - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:18 pm PSTObese women are at increased risk of having their infant die soon after birth, especially if premature rupture of membranes (PROM) occurs before full-term, according to a report in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.U.S. sets record in sexual disease caseshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&e=7&u=/ap/20071114/ap_on_he_me/std_ratesAP - Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:29 pm PSTMore than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday.Clinical Trials Update: Nov. 16, 2007http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=97&e=8&u=/hsn/20071117/hl_hsn/clinicaltrialsupdatenov162007HealthDay - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:44 pm PST(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:Major U.S. Autism Study Gets Under Wayhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=97&e=9&u=/hsn/20071117/hl_hsn/majorusautismstudygetsunderwayHealthDay - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:44 pm PSTFRIDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- A large, five-year study looking at the genetic and environmental factors that may cause autism, as well as other developmental delays, has started enrolling 2,700 children and their families from six areas in the United States.Forgetting long-time bonds, Alzheimer's patients fall in lovehttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1508&e=10&u=/afp/20071118/hl_afp/lifestyleushealthalzheimersAFP - Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:32 pm PSTWhen her husband of 55 years began seeing another woman, former US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor did not begin high-profile divorce proceedings or condemn his infidelity.Cell Insights May Predict Breast Cancer's Spreadhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=97&e=11&u=/hsn/20071117/hl_hsn/cellinsightsmaypredictbreastcancersspreadHealthDay - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:44 pm PSTFRIDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers believe they're on the way to solving a major question about breast cancer: Which women have a type of lesion in their breast duct that will progress to invasive disease?You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts.

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