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Reuters - The day after U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy’s burial, leading Democratic and Republican senators on Sunday seized on his reputation for compromise to call for cooperation in the healthcare debate but showed little give in their own positions.

HealthDay - SUNDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) — Young football players and
other athletes face the risk of major heat injury and illness if they push
themselves too hard in hot weather, warn sports medicine experts.

HealthDay - SUNDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) — A new anti-clotting drug,
ticagrelor (Brilinta), was better than than clopidogrel (Plavix) in
preventing new heart attacks and in reducing deaths among patients who
have had a heart attack, a new study finds.

Reuters - German drug maker Bayer said on Sunday it had completed enrolling patients into a final-stage clinical study, which will test its drug Xarelto against the established but difficult-to-use treatment warfarin in preventing strokes.

AP - Doctors don’t know yet if it will take one dose or two of vaccine to protect against the new swine flu. Add that to vaccine for the regular winter flu, and it could be a multishot season for a lot of people — or a multisquirt season, for those who choose the FluMist nasal-spray version.

AP - When is swine flu just miserable and when do you need a doctor?

AP - The alarm sounded with two sneezy children in California in April. Just five months later, the never-before-seen swine flu has become the world’s dominant strain of influenza, and it’s putting a shockingly younger face on flu.

AP - Working up a sweat may be even better than angioplasty for some heart patients, experts say.

AP - An experimental drug reduces the stroke risk in patients with irregular heartbeats by more than three times, compared with the popular drug warfarin — but possibly at a cost, according to new research released Sunday.

AP - A new drug to prevent blood clots in heart patients reduced their chances of dying by more than 20 percent compared to the standard treatment, new research says.