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HealthDay - SUNDAY, Aug. 9 (HealthDay News) — Hormone replacement therapy
once seemed like a wonderful means to help women age gracefully. By dosing
menopausal women with estrogen and progesterone as their bodies began to
produce decreased amounts of those hormones, doctors believed they could
help fend off heart disease, osteoporosis and cancer.

HealthDay - SUNDAY, Aug. 9 (HealthDay News) — Older adults might want to
remember to exercise their brains regularly.

AP - It’s one issue in the health care debate that nearly everyone — even the insurance lobby — seems to agree on: Better consumer protections are needed to end the nightmare of not being able to get covered for a treatable, if costly, illness.

AFP - Experts from 65 nations gathered in Indonesia Sunday to assess progress in the battle against HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, amid concern that only a quarter of those in need in the region were getting treatment.

AFP - Experts from 65 nations gather in Indonesia Sunday to assess progress in the battle against HIV/AIDS amid concern only a quarter of those in need in Asia and the Pacific are getting treatment.

AP - Using better-than-expected jobs numbers to press his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama is arguing that overhauling the health care system is essential to the country’s economic well-being.

AFP - Chinese authorities have lifted a quarantine order that was imposed on a remote town of 10,000 people to contain a deadly outbreak of pneumonic plague, according to a report on Sunday.

AP - A blockade around a remote northwest Chinese town where deadly pneumonic plague killed three people and sickened nine was lifted after no new infections were reported, an official said Sunday.