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Fenty (D) said yesterday. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/gIn8lel3SKbBeENuOCa11ANJooA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/gIn8lel3SKbBeENuOCa11ANJooA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~4/JIH46_drVpM" height="1" width="1"/ McDonald's Brings Moms Behind the Scenes The only obstacle between kids and their french fries: Mom. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Mo25CszKT_anOfPrL79zjz32LF0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Mo25CszKT_anOfPrL79zjz32LF0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~4/2pd9QrGtRJA" height="1" width="1"/ Many People Disregard Advice to Get HIV Tests, Studies Show Two years after the federal government recommended that patients in emergency rooms and doctors' offices be routinely tested for HIV, the advice is generally not being followed, according to a large number of studies presented this week at a conference in Arlington.br clear="all"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472242817159" target="_blank"img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472242817159" border="0" vspace="5"/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/v3ZvYJoKHvXo1mtRRszhwOAu_1w/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/v3ZvYJoKHvXo1mtRRszhwOAu_1w/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~4/1BXbLFE7vww" height="1" width="1"/ Video Game Technology Gives Veterans New Lease on Life Staff Sgt. Brian Schar got behind the wheel of a white Chevy Colorado yesterday and went for a spin. The vehicle remained snugly parked in a room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Northwest Washington, despite the large screens in front of the truck, which showed a street-level view of... pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/rqU2cJChqcjTC4XVuWfgRiyxmZY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/rqU2cJChqcjTC4XVuWfgRiyxmZY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~4/VMVLWORet4s" height="1" width="1"/ Thomas Daschle to Be Nominated as Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas A. Daschle, a former Senate majority leader and a confidant of President-elect Barack Obama, will be nominated as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and will take on a broader role as the administration's health policy chief, said several sources close to the transition... pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/YFMmEMGXQaD5hKOg3kn8cUdxpyc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/YFMmEMGXQaD5hKOg3kn8cUdxpyc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~4/ZQLAb0qvBhY" height="1" width="1"/ Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells LONDON -- Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. 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Man Tackles Triathlons Last weekend, the bike went nowhere, the running shoes sat in the closet and Brian Boyle took a minute to reflect on the season just ended and the lifetime ahead.br clear="all"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472242818430" target="_blank"img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=472242818430" border="0" vspace="5"/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iAjsBTDzkvNaIyKDJ1fux7SkEOc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iAjsBTDzkvNaIyKDJ1fux7SkEOc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~4/qyzWntczLvM" height="1" width="1"/ Council Bans Sale of Single Cigars in Bid to Curb Youths' Marijuana Use The Prince George's County Council adopted one of the nation's most sweeping restrictions on the sale of cigars yesterday, an effort to curb a growing trend among urban youths of using hollowed-out cigars to smoke marijuana. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iRTyn0Sb8xx1fdxh9ja3bA717jE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iRTyn0Sb8xx1fdxh9ja3bA717jE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~4/uc5seNWnYlA" height="1" width="1"/ Melamine, Lead and Other Scares Lead FDA to Send Safety Inspectors to China BEIJING, Nov. 18 -- Under fire for not having the resources to better protect consumers at home, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is deploying staff members abroad to work directly with importers and foreign regulatory agencies to guard against contaminated animal feed, counterfeit drugs, to... pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/GIF2xXCrtvUcMF64BxGnkukHmkk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/GIF2xXCrtvUcMF64BxGnkukHmkk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~4/fNeFD94TNaw" height="1" width="1"/ [ Back ]