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Reuters - Glaucoma patients are likely to lose more of their vision if they suffer minor strokes, a three-year study in Hong Kong has found.

AP - Swine flu has been hitting pregnant women unusually hard, so they are likely to be among the first group advised to get a new swine flu shot this fall.

AP - A bipartisan group of senators is closing in on a health care compromise that omits key Democratic priorities but seeks to hold down costs, as lawmakers on both sides of the Capitol labor to deliver sweeping health legislation to President Barack Obama.

AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on the flu and flu vaccinations was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from July 16-July 20, 2009. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,006 adults. Interviews were conducted with 804 respondents on landline telephones and 202 on cellular phones.

AP - Most parents like the idea of vaccinating children against swine flu at school, but they’re not so eager to roll up their own sleeves.

AFP - Bangladeshi authorities said Tuesday they had found traces of a toxic chemical in paracetamol syrup believed to have killed two dozen children in the past six weeks.

AFP - Bangladeshi authorities said Tuesday they had found traces of a toxic chemical in paracetamol syrup believed to have killed two dozen children in the past six weeks.

AFP - The swine flu virus has set the laboratories and factories of Swiss pharmaceutical giants working all-out in the difficult search for vaccines and the race for other treatments.