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	<title><![CDATA[Former NIH chief: Ignore new mammogram guideline]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) - The former director of the National Institutes of Health is advising women to ignore new guidelines that delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:50:00 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.omaha.com/article/20091120/AP08/311209782]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[(AP) - Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups...]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:35:00 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.omaha.com/article/20091120/AP08/311209836]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:35:00 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Correction: Plavix story]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) - In a Nov. 17 story about drug interactions between heartburn medications and the blood thinner Plavix, The Associated Press misidentified Johnson & Johnson's Mylanta as part of the H-2 blocker drug family.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:35:00 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.omaha.com/article/20091120/AP08/311209981]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:35:00 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.omaha.com/article/20091119/AP08/311199613]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) - Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:00 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) - First mammograms. Now - in an apparent coincidence - Pap smears.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:00 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[AP IMPACT: Gripes about swine flu vaccine abound]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA (AP) - When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:00 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[US survey shows southern counties most obese]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA (AP) - The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent...]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:35:00 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Experts say radical measures won't stop swine flu]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.omaha.com/article/20091119/AP08/311199988]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[LONDON (AP) - Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu - most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms - have failed to contain the...]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:35:00 CST</pubDate>
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