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Reuters - U.S. regulators on Thursday listed two dozen drugs, including weight-loss medicines and sleep disorder pills, that it is at an early stage of reviewing for potential safety problems.

Reuters - Medical bills are behind more than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a report they said demonstrates that healthcare reform is on the wrong track.

Reuters - Baby Hisinawa is permanently semi-comatose after TB spread to his brain, his board-stiff body shivering as a doctor pushes a rubber tube down his nose to clear away thick phlegm choking him.

AP - President Barack Obama’s hopes for a bipartisan health deal seemed in jeopardy Thursday as GOP senators protested his renewed support for a new public health insurance plan, and a key Democratic chairman declared that such a plan would likely be in the Senate’s bill.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) — Better diagnosis and treatment
have led to fewer deaths from the rupture of a blood vessel on the surface
of the brain, Dutch researchers say.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — With some simple changes in your buying and
consuming habits, you can help reduce the amount of trash that ends up in
the local landfill.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Lots of people get pedicures in advance of
the summer sandal season. But before you hit the salon, consider some
safety do’s and don’ts.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) — Culture, not biology, might
explain why females in some parts of the world don’t perform as well as
males in math.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) — As if folks needed another reason
to be annoyed at other people’s cell phones, researchers now report that
just 30 seconds of a stranger’s nearby ringtone can impair thinking, at
least briefly.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of ClinicalConnection.com and CenterWatch: