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Reuters - When Sarah Roisman was 11 years old, her
doctors prescribed Klonopin, a muscle relaxant, for a
psychiatric disorder that caused her to have seizures. She
liked how the drug made her feel. Her seizures went away.

AP - City officials are putting South Los Angeles on a diet.

Reuters - A biopsy conducted on skin taken
from the face of U.S. Republican presidential candidate John
McCain showed no skin cancer, medical authorities said on
Tuesday.

AP - The Los Angeles City Council has approved a one-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a low-income area of the city.

Reuters - An Alzheimer’s drug that attacks
abnormal tangles in the brain appeared to slow progression of
the disease, British researchers said on Tuesday, but doctors
cautioned that the results are early.

Reuters - Children whose mothers used
cell phones frequently during pregnancy and who are themselves
cell phone users are more likely to have behavior problems, new
research shows.

AP - The nation’s largest pediatricians’ group says most children getting attention-deficit drugs don’t need heart screening with electrocardiogram tests, challenging advice from a leading heart doctors’ association.

AP - A government advisory panel Tuesday recommended approval of the drug Actemra, promoted as a new type of treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, a painful and disabling swelling of the joints generally kept in check with medication.

AP - For the first time, an experimental drug shows promise for halting the progression of Alzheimer’s disease by breaking up the protein tangles that clog victims’ brains.

AP - Fewer people are dying of AIDS, more patients are on HIV medication and the global AIDS epidemic is stable after peaking in the late 1990s.

Reuters - Nearly one-third of leukemia
patients do not respond to chemotherapy, but this is not
typically discovered until they have already endured a
week-long course of chemotherapy and waited even longer to see
if the chemotherapy worked.

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

HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) — High or low levels of the
hormone thyrotropin may be associated with an increased risk of
Alzheimer’s disease in women. Thyrotropin affects thyroid gland function
and thyroid hormone levels.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) — Men undergoing hormone
deprivation therapy to keep prostate cancer at bay may experience memory
loss and have trouble concentrating, a new study finds.

AP - A conjoined twin who was separated from her sister during a grueling, 100-hour operation eight years ago died Tuesday at a hospital in Nepal, a doctor said.