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AP - Senate negotiators said Wednesday they had reached a tentative agreement on a key obstacle to one of the most ambitious federal health initiatives ever, a $50 billion act to combat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa and other countries hard-hit by those diseases.

AP - Many of the thousands of people who have gone to court claiming ground zero-related illnesses don’t have serious health problems, lawyers for the city claim in court papers.

AP - A federal advisory panel has endorsed a second vaccine to combat a common and potentially fatal virus that causes diarrhea and vomiting in children.

Reuters - Too many people may consider
themselves at low risk of sexually transmitted diseases simply
because they trust their partner, a new study suggests.

Reuters - Merck and Co’s new rotavirus vaccine
may have affected the 2007-2008 stomach bug season among young
children in the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

Reuters - Female colon cancer patients
who are 50 or younger have much better odds of surviving the
disease than their male peers, but the opposite is true of
older women with the disease, Australian researchers report.

Reuters - Merck and Co’s new rotavirus vaccine
may have affected the 2007-2008 stomach bug season among young
children in the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

AP - Scientists have identified a gene that may raise the risk of getting the most common kind of Alzheimer’s disease by about 45 percent in people who inherit a certain form of it.

AFP - The German government on Wednesday unveiled a bundle of measures and incentives to whip millions of overweight adults and children into shape.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) — Researchers say they’ve
discovered a gene that may make it easier for people to develop
Alzheimer’s disease, and it could become a target for drug treatments.

Reuters - Overweight and obese men may be
less likely than their thinner counterparts to develop a hernia
in the groin, a long-term study suggests.

Reuters - U.S. regulators have told Merck & Co
they cannot yet approve Merck’s application to expand marketing
of its cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to an older group of
women, the drugmaker said on Wednesday.

Reuters - U.S. regulators have told Merck & Co
they cannot yet approve Merck’s application to expand marketing
of its cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to an older group of
women, the drugmaker said on Wednesday.

AP - The Southwest has the lowest health insurance coverage in the country, with 30 percent of non-elderly adults and 18 percent of children uninsured, according to a new government study.