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AUDIO Considine Celebrates 30 Years At Children's
Akron Children's Hospital President and CEO Bill Considine is celebrating a significant anniversary today.

Family Urges Teams To Focus On Victory
The parents of injured Highland High School football player Kory Wiita have a message for all high school players going into play-off games tomorrow night.

Free H1N1 Infant Clinic
Free H1N1 shots for infants and children 6 months through 35 months of age only will be held on November 17 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Medina County Health Department.

VIDEO Top Costumes This Halloween Season
It's that time of year when many set out to find the perfect costume for the one night of the year they can pretend to be someone or something else.

Free Memory Loss Screenings
Are you concerned that your older loved one is growing increasingly forgetful?

AUDIO Treat The Flu At Home
If you contract the so-called seasonal flu or the H1N1 virus, you should feel comfortable to treat the illness at home.


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House opens debate on health care overhaul bill
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul moved toward a vote in the House Saturday after anti-abortion lawmakers won a chance to knock out language that would let people who get federal subsidies buy insurance plans that include abortion coverage....

Alaska island village hit by suspected swine flu
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island - prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help....

In Europe, most swine flu shots by invitation only
LONDON (AP) -- In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy corporations or healthy people who don't really need it....

Poll: One-third able to get swine flu vaccine
ATLANTA (AP) -- Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll released Friday....

FDA warns Web companies not to sell flavored cigs
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online....

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup got swine flu vaccine
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some of New York's biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine is going first to the privileged....

New gene therapy halts 2 boys' rare brain disease
WASHINGTON (AP) -- French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene....

WHO: Swine flu virus is top strain worldwide
LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization's flu chief said the swine flu virus has now become the predominant flu strain worldwide....

Old method of heart bypass better than 'off-pump'
NEW YORK (AP) -- It seemed like a great idea - doing bypass surgery while the heart is still beating, sparing patients the complications that can come from going on a heart-lung machine. Now the first big test of this method has produced a surprise: Bypass has fewer problems and is more successful done the old way....

Medical aid group raises alarm about AIDS funding
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The global recession and pressure to divert funds to other health crises are hurting the fight against AIDS, a medical group warned Thursday, with one health worker saying he feared a return to the days when the AIDS virus was a death sentence in Africa....


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