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BEIJING (Reuters) – The number of new HIV/AIDS cases in China jumped in the first 10 months of the year, as premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang promised to let non-governmental groups play a bigger role in fighting an epidemic spreading fast in vulnerable groups. The number of new AIDS cases rose almost 13 percent in the January to October period, compared with the same period the previous year, while the number of people infected with HIV aged 50 and above leapt more than 20 percent, the official Xinhua news agency said. . . .

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Don’t tell Popeye. It turns out you don’t need to eat your spinach to get the world’s biggest arms.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday launched a public relations push for his bid to raise taxes on wealthy Americans, but U. S. lawmakers remained deadlocked over dramatic, year-end tax increases and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff. " At the White House, small business leaders emerged from a one-hour meeting with Obama to voice support for his goal of extending low tax rates for the middle class beyond the end of the year, while letting rates rise for wealthier taxpayers. . . .

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Health officials say 1 in 5 new HIV infections occur in a tiny segment of the population ? young men who are gay or bisexual.

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Controversial U. S. guidelines for mammography issued in 2009, calling for screening every two years rather than annually for women over 50 years old, can result in breast cancers being missed, according to U. S. researchers studying the hotly debated topic. This latest study assessing the impact of revised guidelines issued by the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force three years ago comes on the back of a chilling analysis published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The NEJM study, using three decades of U. S. . . .

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The Food and Drug Administration today shut down the country?s largest organic peanut butter processor following a salmonella outbreak that sickened scores of people nationwide. For the first time the FDA has utilized new power granted by the 2011 food safety law and shut down. . .

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(Reuters) – Dr. Joseph Murray, the surgeon who carried out the first successful kidney transplant and later won a Nobel Prize for his work in medicine and physiology, died on Monday in Boston at the age of 93. Murray died after suffering a stroke last Thursday, Brigham and Women’s Hospital spokesman Tom Langford said. Murray and his team completed the first human organ transplant in 1954, taking a kidney from one identical twin and giving it to his twin brother, opening a new field in medicine, the hospital said. "The world is a better place because of all Dr. Murray has given. . . .

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(Reuters) – The U. S. Food and Drug Administration suspended operations on Monday at a New Mexico food producer linked to salmonella-tainted peanut butter that has sickened at least 41 people this year, the agency said in a statement. The FDA said it had suspended Sunland Inc’s food facility registration “in the interest of public health,” following the national outbreak and a history of food safety violations reaching back over three years. “The fact that peanut butter made by the company has been linked to an outbreak . . . . . .

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Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. has recalled dozens of lots of its generic version of cholesterol drug Lipitor because some may contain tiny glass particles, the latest in a string of manufacturing deficiencies that once led U. S. regulators to bar imports of the Indian company’s medicines.

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They may be a big hit at kids’ birthday parties, but inflatable bounce houses can be dangerous, with the number of injuries soaring in recent years, a nationwide study found.

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