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  • Treating HIV also prevents its spread, study finds

    Provocative new research shows that treating people with the AIDS virus can provide a powerful bonus: It cuts the risk that they will infect others.


  • ** FILE ** A health official takes a blood sample for an HIV test during a campaign marking World AIDS Day in San Salvador on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. (AP Photo)

    Study: Treating HIV also prevents its spread

    Provocative new research shows that treating people with the AIDS virus can provide a powerful bonus: It cuts the risk that they will infect others.


  • Associated Press
Len Goodman inspects one of his marijuana plants near Santa Fe, N.M. He is one of 11 growers approved by New Mexico to produce pot for the state's 2,000 medical marijuana patients.

    Pot growers fail to meet demand

    Len Goodman can't grow enough marijuana to keep up with demand.


  • Associated Press
Gil Riegler of Oasis Camel Dairy works quickly to milk of one of his camels in Ramona, Calif. Mr. Riegler and his wife, Nancy, own the nation's largest camel dairy and say camel milk is more beneficial than cow milk.

    Dairy not having a cow

    To milk a camel, you need warm hands, a gentle touch and quick timing -- camels give milk only in 90-second bursts.


  • Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams addresses a crowd March 30 in Salt Lake City. A spokesman for the National Tea Party Federation on Sunday said the organization has expelled the Tea Party Express from its ranks for refusing to oust Mr. Williams after he posted a blog that satirized the NAACP and referred to its president, Benjamin Jealous, as "Tom's nephew and NAACP head colored person."

    'Tea party' leader ousted in racism row

    A national "tea party" umbrella group expelled a prominent member from its ranks over the weekend for a controversial blog post as the conservative movement continued its row with the NAACP over allegations of racism.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the annual Tennessee Democratic Party Jackson Day on Friday, July 16, 2010 in Nashville, Tenn.

    Biden: Tea party isn't racist organization

    The tea party is not a racist group, says Vice President Joe Biden, though he believes that some of those involved in the movement have expressed racist views.


  • FDA cites quality problems at NY brain-imaging lab

    A respected brain-imaging center run by Columbia University has halted some research after federal officials repeatedly complained about the quality of drugs being used on patients.


  • Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, left, speaks to the media as Loretta Lynch, center, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and other law enforcement officials announce charges against doctors, health care company owners, executives and others in a case of alleged false medicare billing at a news conference in the U.S. Attorney's office in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, July 16, 2010. The poster at right, which says in Russian "Do Not Gossip," was, allegedly, in the back room of a doctor's office where patients were being bribed for their cooperation in the scheme. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)

    Medicare fraud bust: $251M in scams

    Authorities said busts carried out this week in Miami, New York City, Detroit, Houston and Baton Rouge, La., were the largest Medicare fraud takedown in history — part of a massive overhaul in the way federal officials are preventing and prosecuting the crimes.


  • FDA says breast cancer drug did not extend lives

    Follow-up studies of a Roche breast cancer drug showed that it failed to extend the lives of patients, federal health scientists said Friday, opening the door for it to be potentially withdrawn for use in treating that disease.


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