Traffic-related air pollution may be linked to a higher death rate among people who initially survived strokes, hint study findings from the United Kingdom. Of 3,320 men and women who lived in a specific south London region and had a first stroke between 1995 and 2005, Dr. Ravi Maheswaran, at …
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Eating chocolate could bring down cholesterol levels — but only in small amounts and only in some people, according to an analysis of eight studies. Dr. Rutai Hui of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College in Beijing and colleagues found chocolate only helped people who …
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A Las Vegas man who misrepresented himself as a retired physician convinced more than 100 chronically ill patients to undergo experimental stem cell implant procedures that he claimed could cure incurable diseases, federal agents say. Authorities say Alfred T. Sapse, 84, formed a corporation called Stem Cell Pharma Inc. in …
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Contestants in this year’s Miss America (search)pageant made their debut in Atlantic City on Sunday, dressed in fashions from the 1950s. A crowd of several hundred people gathered on the city’s boardwalk to watch introductions of the 52 contestants. Their attire was a tip of the …
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Here’s what is on tap for Thursday: ‘FOX & Friends First’ (6 a.m. ET) The Kerry camp is denying any involvement with the release ofCBS News’ (search) discredited documents. But the White House says lots of questions remain. Will the CBS appointed investigative panel get to the bottom of the …
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WASHINGTON – The Rev.Jesse Jackson (search)and other black political leaders spread a message of victimization that leads most blacks to vote Democratic, Housing and Urban Development SecretaryAlphonso Jackson (search)charged Wednesday. The HUD secretary said he has advised President Bush’s campaign to focus its efforts on younger blacks who did not …
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DETROIT – DemocratJohn Kerry (search)has a new campaign worker helping him drum up support in Alabama after hiring a woman who was fired for displaying the presidential candidate’s bumper sticker on her car. Kerry calledLynne Gobbell (search)on Tuesday after reading a newspaper story describing how she had been fired last …
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LOS ANGELES – Restaurant chain Applebee’s International Inc. (APPB) on Thursday said there was room for at least 3,000 of its namesake restaurants in the United States, nearly double the existing number. The Overland Park, Kansas, company, which operates about 1,600 restaurants in the United States, in 2002 had pegged …
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WASHINGTON – The hypothetical pairing of DemocratJohn Kerry (search)and Republican Sen.John McCain (search)holds a double-digit lead over the Republican ticket of President Bush and Vice PresidentDick Cheney (search), a new poll finds. Kerry-McCain has a 14-point advantage over Bush-Cheney among registered voters, 53 percent to 39 percent, in the latest …
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GENEVA – The international Red Cross said Thursday that it had repeatedly asked U.S. authorities to take action over alleged prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib (search) prison before recent revelations about the way detainees were treated. “We were aware of what was going on, and based on our findings …
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