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AP - A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra — but don’t necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long.

Reuters - They left as children and
teenagers, crossing the border between dry southern Sudan and
Ethiopia before being transported half a world away to the
green strangeness of Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud.

AP - A Filipino teenager who came to New York so doctors could perform surgery to untwist her severely clubbed feet took her first unaided steps Wednesday in pink-and-white sneakers — the first shoes she’s ever worn.

AP - The Kroger Co. expanded its voluntary recall of some ground beef products beyond stores in Michigan and parts of Ohio to its stores in more than 20 states on Wednesday.

Reuters - An experimental process that snags lung
cancer cells from a blood sample could give doctors real-time
feedback on the most effective therapy, researchers reported on
Wednesday.

AP - First came the floods — now the mosquitoes. An explosion of pesky insects are pestering clean-up crews and just about anyone venturing outside in the waterlogged Midwest.

Reuters - Amgen’s once-a-day pill to starve
tumors can help many patients with hard-to-treat thyroid
cancer, either by shrinking tumors or slowing their growth,
researchers reported on Wednesday.

AP - Diabetes drugs would be subject to more stringent safety standards that could cost manufacturers millions, under recommendations made Wednesday by a government panel.

Reuters - Men are much less likely than women
to live into their 90s, but those who do have a much lower
chance of having Alzheimer’s disease or another form of
dementia, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

Reuters - Paradoxically, obesity may
offer some protection against heart-related “events,” like
heart attack, in people who have a stent placed to prop open a
clogged coronary artery, research shows.

Reuters - Morbidly obese adults who
undergo a particular type of stomach bypass surgery called
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) appear to be at increased risk
of developing kidney stones earlier than previously thought.
The increase in stone risk was evident just three months after
the surgery.

Reuters - Biological indicators, or
“biomarkers” of exposure to secondhand smoke that can be
analyzed in blood, tissue or other samples, or through imaging
scans are needed to examine whether exposure to secondhand
smoke may cause lung cancer.

AP - Danish health officials fear more than 4,000 people may be infected with salmonella and are checking everything from refrigerators to credit card receipts to find the source of what may be the worst outbreak in 15 years.

Reuters - Diets high in saturated fat may
increase the risk of prostate cancer progression, researchers
from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in
Houston report.

July 1 — The OneTouch Ping glucose management meter, which communicates without wires to a pump that delivers insulin to people with diabetes, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, maker Animas Corp. said Tuesday.
The system allows users to receive an insulin dose — based on the meter reading — without […]