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Salamanca woman jailed on murder, other charges

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Salamanca woman jailed on murder, other charges

November 1, 2025

SALAMANCA — A city woman is facing murder and other felony charges after a death on River Street on Friday morning. The Salamanca Police Department re...

94 charged in Medicare scams totaling $251M

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94 charged in Medicare scams totaling $251M

Kelli Kennedy and Tom Hays Associated Press Writers

Jul 18, 2010

MIAMI (AP) — Elderly Russian immigrants lined up to take kickbacks from the backroom of a Brooklyn clinic. Claims flooded in from Miami for HIV treatm...

N.J. inches closer to growing its own medical pot

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N.J. inches closer to growing its own medical pot

Jul 14, 2010

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey is getting closer to going into the medical marijuana business. A key state senator says he now supports the idea of h...

Fat: The secret ingredient to a tasty lean burger

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Fat: The secret ingredient to a tasty lean burger

Jim Romanoff For The Associated Press

Jun 17, 2010

Fat: The secret ingredient to a tasty lean burger JIM ROMANOFF,For The Associated Press When it comes to ground meat (or most any meats for that matte...

Doc makes each day count

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Doc makes each day count

WILLIAM CROYLE The Kentucky Enquirer

Jun 10, 2010

PETERSBURG, Ky. (AP) — Ten years ago, at age 17, Kevin Bauereis told The Enquirer he wanted to be a doctor, but he didn't know if he'd live long enoug...

Study of cancer at Pratt & Whitney advances

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Study of cancer at Pratt & Whitney advances

Jun 08, 2010

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Researchers are planning to release more information late Thursday afternoon from a massive, eight-year study of brain can...

Former Libby residents sought for asbestos study

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Former Libby residents sought for asbestos study

Jun 07, 2010

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Asbestos researchers are looking for people who went to high school in Libby between 1950 and 1990 and then moved away. The Ce...

Companies offer mental health programs for workers

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Companies offer mental health programs for workers

APRIL WILKERSON Journal Record

May 14, 2010

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Not so long ago, business leaders were hesitant to even bring up the topic of mental health in the workplace. Today, the atmosphe...

Schwarzenegger gives full support to health reform

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Schwarzenegger gives full support to health reform

TOM VERDIN Associated Press Writer

May 04, 2010

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged California's full support Thursday for national health care reform, throwing the weight o...

States want to share patient Rx use to curb abuse

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States want to share patient Rx use to curb abuse

GREG RISLING Associated Press Writer

May 04, 2010

LOS ANGELES (AP) — On his night shift in a busy emergency room, Dr. Jacob Khushigian inevitably finds a few patients more likely to be hunting for dru...

Wife receives tissue donation from dead husband

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Wife receives tissue donation from dead husband

BRYNN MANDEL Republican-American of Waterbury

Apr 22, 2010

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Jean Reyes de Gonzales worked amid death for years, taking calls from hospitals and police in the Office of the Chief Medical ...

Lawmakers vow to contest health care overhaul

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Lawmakers vow to contest health care overhaul

TIM TALLEY Associated Press Writer

Apr 22, 2010

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Leading Republican lawmakers vowed Tuesday to challenge the new federal health care overhaul by bypassing the state attorney gene...

Sterling couple deal with young son’s arthritis

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Sterling couple deal with young son’s arthritis

CALLIE JONES Sterling Journal Advocate

Apr 22, 2010

STERLING, Colo. (AP) — Three-year-old Chase Bevans, of Sterling, is having a difficult time walking around right now. He has juvenile rheumatoid arthr...

Liver transplant first of its kind in Kansas

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Liver transplant first of its kind in Kansas

KAREN SHIDELER The Wichita Eagle

Apr 22, 2010

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Richard Gross was sure that his defective liver would kill him by Christmas. He'd lost 45 pounds, he was weak, and he could no lo...

Childhood obsesity a growing problem in Minn.

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Childhood obsesity a growing problem in Minn.

LORNA BENSON Minnesota Public Radio

Apr 08, 2010

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Today, 19-year-old Daniel Soderberg is a trim 166 pounds. His body is limber and strong. "Whew. I cleared that whole thing," he...

Testing new theory as patients demand care now

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Testing new theory as patients demand care now

LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer

Mar 31, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under intense pressure from patients, some U.S. doctors are cautiously testing a provocative theory that abnormal blood drainage fro...