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The Virginia Assembly on Thursday adopted a $77 billion fiscal year 2008-2009 state budget that restores funding to the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. A pack amendment, introduced by Sen. Ken Cuccinelli (R), would have eliminated about $200,000 in state funding for Virginia Planned Parenthood. The amendment had been included in the House version of the budget but was rejected in the Senate and therefore not included in the final budget.

Abortion-rights opponents “denounced” lawmakers for eliminating the correction, the Times-Dispatch reports. (Read the full post about ‘Virginia Assembly Passes State Budget That Restores Funding To Planned Parenthood’…)

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US experts have identified the substance which contaminated made-in-China heparin kin thinner and possibly caused the deaths of 19 patients and severe allergic reactions in hundreds of others. (Read the full post about ‘US identifies contaminant in China-made blood thinner (AFP)’…)

(HealthDay news) - The medical community continues to debate the merits of getting a massage for the time of pregnancy, according to the American Pregnancy Association.

Before you get a massage while you're pregnant, always check with your doctor.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - After visiting the creation's oldest AIDS clinic and meeting HIV-positive Haitians, U.S. first lady Laura Bush on Thursday urged lawmakers to approve tens of billions of dollars more to combat the disease.

"As we speak, the maintenance reauthorization of PEPFAR is being discussed in the U.S. Congress," Mrs. Bush said, referring to the President's Emergency plan b on this account that AIDS Relief.

The program was launched by President George W.

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Monitoring global warming usually requires a Ph.D. and enough math to glaze your eyes. But Francisco Lopez and Ruby Nostrant trace what climate change is doing to five different plants in Tucson, Ariz., and they are just in second grade.

“We’re collecting premises because the stand is changing and the plants are blooming,” Ruby explained.

Scores of other students at Borton Primary Magnet School and Sunnyside High School in Tucson are heading outdoors to be part of a new scientific push to figure out how the biological timing of Earth is changing.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned of reported liver damage and death in patients taking the company's HIV drug Prezista, according to a letter released on Wednesday.

The letter, sent by J&J's Tibotec Therapeutics unit to doctors this month, cited cases of drug-induced hepatitis as well as liver injury and death.

"We are issuing a new warning on our labeling," Tibotec Therapeutics spokeswoman Pam Van Houten told Reuters.

The company said in its letter that the problems have not been linked directly to Prezista, a once-daily protease inhibitor that was given in combination with the drug ritonavir.

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - An experimental technique for a rare eye cancer has saved some children from losing their eyes and even restored vision in a few cases, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

After threading a catheter through the body to the eye, doctors delivered a drug directly to retinoblastoma tumors through an artery in the eye. This allowed them to administer a much larger dose of the chemotherapy drug melphalan, made by GlaxoSmithKline under the brand name Alkeran, than is normally given intravenously, they said.

Dr.

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BADARWAS, India (Reuters) - A couple of months ago, Sheela Adivasi's infant son ruthless sick and his eyes filled with pus. By the time the infection cleared up, Deepak's pupils had turned a pearly white. He is now permanently blind.

It did not help matters that Deepak is malnourished, as are half of all young children in India. His belly is swollen, his dry skin speckled with dark dots, and his hair is thread-like and yellowing.

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WEDNESDAY, March 19 (HealthDay news) — U.S. health officials say they've identified the contaminant found in the blood-thinner heparin, which has been linked to hundreds of allergic reactions and possibly 19 deaths in the United States.

The contaminant is a man-made chemical called oversulfated condroitin sulfate, but U.S. Food and mix with drugs Administration officials could not reply Wednesday how it got into the heparin. And they're not even sure it's to disapprove for the allergic reactions and deaths.

But Dr.

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Tissue-Freezing Technique Effective Against Prostate Cancer

By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) — Freezing the prostate to kill cancer, a procedure called cryotherapy, may be as effective as more common treatments such as radiation, U.S. researchers story in the first such follow-up study spanning 10 years.

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In this procedure, thin needles are placed into the prostate through what one.

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