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Reuters - Better diagnostic tests and pressure to lower healthcare costs may finally usher in the era of personalized medicine, in which patients get drugs tailored to their genetic makeup, a new report suggests.

AFP - An Italian drugs safety watchdog approved late Thursday the sale of the abortion-inducing drug RU486 in this predominantly Roman Catholic country, the ANSA news agency reported.

AP - ABC News has hired a top government doctor as part of an expansion of its medical coverage.

AP - Americans spend more than a 10th of their out-of-pocket health care dollars on alternative medicine, according to the first national estimate of such spending in more than a decade.

Reuters - The United States signed a U.N. convention on Thursday aimed at ensuring equal rights for the world’s 650 million disabled people, a pact that the former Bush administration refused to endorse.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) — Women who are pregnant, children
6 months and older and health-care workers should all get top priority
when the H1N1 swine flu vaccine arrives this fall, a U.S. government
advisory panel recommended late Wednesday.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — It’s your third trimester — the home
stretch of your pregnancy.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Hemorrhoids are often painful swollen veins
near the anus, the U.S. National Digestive Diseases Information
Clearinghouse (NDDIC) says.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) — When infants attend day care in
someone else’s home, they’re more likely to be heavier than average by the
time they’re toddlers, new research suggests.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) — Treatment with “suicide” genes
slowed ovarian tumor growth in mice and may one day offer a way to treat
late-stage ovarian cancer in women, U.S. scientists say.