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MILAN (AP) — Doctors are preparing an emergency one-off stem cell treatment for 2-year-old Venetian girl suffering a severe muscular disease after a judge revoked an order blocking the cure.

Study: Tattoo infections traced to tainted ink

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ATLANTA (AP) — An outbreak of infected tattoos has led to an unlikely source: the ink.

New AIDS-like disease in Asians, not contagious

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Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV.

Study: Obesity surgery can help prevent diabetes

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Doctors are reporting a new benefit from weight-loss surgery — preventing diabetes. Far fewer obese people developed that disease if they had stomach-shrinking operations rather than usual care to try to slim down, a large study in Sweden found.

CDC: West Nile outbreak one of largest in US

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ATLANTA (AP) — The current West Nile outbreak is one of the largest in the U.S., with four times the usual number of cases for this time of year, federal health officials said Wednesday.

Tainted Tattoo Ink Led to Skin Infection Outbreak

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Premixed 'gray wash' product found as culprit has been discontinued

Weight-Loss Surgery May Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

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Medications, lifestyle changes still first-line prevention, researchers say

New Immune-Deficiency Illness Emerging in East Asia

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Researchers say the syndrome mimics the weakened state of HIV infection, but cause remains unclear

Minority Fifth Graders Face Health Obstacles, Study Finds

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But with similar schools, family income, disparities declined

Microbiology and Genome Experts Quell Deadly Bacteria Outbreak

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Collaboration helped control multi-drug resistant bacterial infection at research hospital

Govt. gene sleuths stop superbug that killed 6

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Over six frightening months, a deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics spread in the nation's leading research hospital. Pretty soon, a patient a week was catching the bug. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health locked down patients, cleaned with bleach, even ripped out plumbing — and still the germ persisted.