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Irving Shaffino, 15, poses with his bicycle in Shallowater, Texas, July 16, 2008.  Irving developed liver disease and had a liver transplant in July of 2007.  (AP Photo/Zach LongAP - In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver transplants.




AP - Many colon cancer patients aren't getting the screenings recommended after surgery to make sure the disease hasn't returned, new research shows.

AP - The government on Friday began posting a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems in an effort to better inform doctors and patients.

AP - Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday.

AP - Scientists have mapped the cascade of genetic changes that turn normal cells in the brain and pancreas into two of the most lethal cancers. The result points to a new approach for fighting tumors and maybe even catching them sooner. Genes blamed for one person's brain tumor were different from the culprits for the next patient, making the puzzle of cancer genetics even more complicated.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that obese people who have asthma are nearly five times more likely to be hospitalized for the problem and to have lower quality of life and worse control of the disease than those with asthma who are normal weight.

Richard Cherry Jr., right, 15, departs Boys' Latin of Philadelphia with his father, Richard Cherry Sr, in Philadelphia Tuesday July 15, 2008.  Boys' Latin of Philadelphia, one of the city's newer charter schools, aims to be an educational beacon in the financially and academically troubled district. But because it is single sex public school — one of four in Philadelphia — it faced huge opposition and almost didn't exist.  (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)AP - Calling all ninth-grade boys! Raise your hand if this school sounds like fun: wearing jackets and ties every day, staying until 5 p.m., learning Latin and — to top it all off — no girls.




AP - List of medications with potential safety problems

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Fever in young children can be reduced for a longer period of time by giving them ibuprofen, according to British researchers.

Reuters - Age should not preclude people who have suffered a stroke or TIA (transient ischemic attack) from being treated with a "statin" drug to lower the risk of a recurrence, US and European investigators report.

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