ARTICLES BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE/AP CHIEF MEDICAL WRITER
Surgery reveals Carter's cancer
ATLANTA - Former President Jimmy Carter, who at age 90 still travels the world supporting the humanitarian endeavors that have consumed his time in the decades since he left office, announced Wednesday he has cancer that has spread to other parts of his body.
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Cancer treatments got gentler, yet kids' survival improved
CHICAGO - The move to make cancer treatments gentler for children has paid a double dividend: More kids are surviving than ever before, and without the long-term complications that doomed many of their peers a generation ago, new research shows.
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Pills before, after sex can help prevent HIV
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Early exposure to peanuts helps prevent allergies in kids
For years, parents of babies who seem likely to develop a peanut allergy have gone to extremes to keep them away from peanut-based foods. Now a major study suggests that is exactly the wrong thing to do.
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Ebola drug shows some promise in first tests in West Africa
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Study lifts cloud over heart drugs Zetia, Vytorin
CHICAGO - A major study lifts a cloud around Zetia and Vytorin, blockbuster drugs for lowering cholesterol. The study found that these pills modestly lower the risk of heart attacks and other problems in people at high risk for them - evidence that's been missing for more than a decade …
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Study questions need for most people to cut salt
A large international study questions the conventional wisdom that most people should cut back on salt, suggesting that the amount most folks consume is OK for heart health - and too little may be as bad as too much. The findings came under immediate attack by other scientists.
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U.S. government had role in Ebola drug given to workers
Two American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for safety in humans and was only identified as a potential treatment earlier this year, thanks to a longstanding research program by the U.S. government and the military.
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Aging America: Exercise as the fountain of youth
Editor's Note: Aging America is a joint AP-APME project examing the aging of the baby boomers and the impact this silver tsunami will have on the communities in which they live.
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Cheap drug greatly boosts prostate cancer survival
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Surgery gives long-term help for obese diabetics
WASHINGTON - New research is boosting hopes that weight-loss surgery can put some patients' diabetes into remission for years and perhaps in some cases, for good.
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Study: Kids' obesity risk starts before school ageStudy: Kids' obesity risk starts before school age
Those efforts to fight obesity in schools? Think younger. A new study finds that much of a child's "weight fate" is set by age 5, and that nearly half of kids who became obese by the eighth grade were already overweight when they started kindergarten.
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Muppets makeover aims to boost kids' health
Bert and Ernie jump rope and munch apples and carrots, and Cookie Monster has his namesake treat once a week, not every day. Can a Muppets mini-makeover improve kids' health, too?
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