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Reuters - New faces given to a Chinese man after a
bear tore off part of his face and a French-Caribbean man
disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work
and are not medical oddities, researchers said on Thursday.

AP - Transplanting faces may seem like science fiction, but doctors say the experimental surgeries could one day become routine. Two of the world’s three teams that have done partial face transplants reported Friday that their techniques were surprisingly effective, though complications exist and more work is still needed.

Reuters - A new kind of cystic fibrosis drug,
designed to bypass a genetic defect to treat the disease, has
produced promising results in mid-stage clinical trials,
Israeli researchers said on Thursday.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — In 2007, about 3.4 million
Americans enrolled in the Medicare Part D drug plan reached a gap in their
prescription coverage known as the “doughnut hole,” leading some of them
to stop taking prescribed drugs, says a Kaiser Family Foundation study
released Thursday.

AP - Alabama, pushed to third in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat.

Reuters - Pregnant women who live through wars
are more likely to give birth to a child who develops
schizophrenia, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a study
linking prenatal stress with the mental illness.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — Zometa (zoledronic acid)
prevented bone loss at 12 months in premenopausal women undergoing
chemotherapy after they had surgery for early stage breast cancer, a new
study found.

AP - Federal drug safety regulators said Thursday they are investigating whether the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin can increase patients’ risk of developing cancer.

AP - Measles cases in the U.S. are at the highest level in more than a decade, with nearly half of those involving children whose parents rejected vaccination, health officials reported Thursday.

AP - Consumers worried about salad safety may soon be able to buy fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce zapped with just enough radiation to kill E. coli and a few other germs.

AFP - The EU food safety agency on Thursday disputed claims of health benefits by food manufacturers, notably that dairy products promote good teeth and healthy body weight in children.

AP - Bush administration proposes stronger job protections for doctors refusing to do abortions.

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Reuters - Parents refusing to have their
children vaccinated against measles have helped drive cases of
the illness to their worst levels in a dozen years in the
United States, health officials reported on Thursday.

Reuters - Two top Democratic lawmakers on
Thursday questioned recent claims by Merck & Co Inc and
Schering Plough Corp that incidents of cancer in patients
taking their cholesterol drug Vytorin were a fluke.