 Hospital Information - December 1, 2008
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An experimental treatment shows positive results for helping patients suffering from diabetes regain their ability to make insulin. Such help would lessen the need for shots to regulate normal blood sugar levels |
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Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is hospitalized Tuesday after suffering a mild stroke and fainting in his home. He later regains consciousness at a local military hospital. Pinochet, 89, has suffered several strokes in recent years, including one a month ago for which he was also hospitalized |
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William J Brown - All Headline News Staff A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel gave approval Wednesday to the first medicine targeting a specific racial group |
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New reports claim state inspectors have no authority to investigate the death of a 4-year-old on the Mission: SPACE ride at Walt Disney World's Epcot theme park. Disney World and the state's other large theme park complexes - Universal Orlando, Sea World and Busch Gardens Tampa - are exempt from most requirements of Florida's laws regulating carnival and smaller amusement park rides |
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A 21-week-old fetus is surviving inside the womb of its brain-dead mother, being kept alive for a least a month until the fetus can be born. According to Jason Torres, his wife, Susan, would have wanted to save her child's life |
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