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07/08/2008
Fringe autism treatment could get federal study (AP)

Eight-year-old Charlie Blakey, who was diagnosed with autism at age 3, says a prayer before eating dinner with his family at their home on Oak Park, Ill., on April 23, 2008. Charlie's mother Christina, has been using an alternative treatment, chelation, along with a variety of other therapies to treat her son. A proposed federal study of chelation in autistic children has been put on hold because of safety concerns. Chelation helps the body excrete heavy metals and is approved to treat lead poisoning in children. Charlie eats a special diet, swallows chelation pills and has had 40 sessions in a hyperbaric chamber. All have been helpful, according to his mom. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.



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07/08/2008
Elderly may fare worse on prostate cancer drugs (AP)

Prostate cancer cells are seen in a handout photo from the National Cancer Institute. REUTERS/NCI/HandoutAP - A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread.



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07/08/2008
FDA issues warning on Cipro, similar antibiotics (AP)
AP - Federal drug safety officials have imposed the government's most urgent warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing risks that they can cause tendon ruptures, a serious injury that leaves some patients incapacitated.
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07/07/2008
Torn ACLs, other big injuries hit little athletes (AP)

This September 2007 photo provided by the Maddox family shows McCall Maddox (6) playing football in Jacksboro, Texas. Injuries once seen mostly in adult athletes are now becoming distressingly common in children — and not just high-school athletes, but elementary school kilds. Worse, some injuries to little limbs don't have good treatments. The surgery that fixed Tiger Woods' torn ACL, for instance, can stall the growth of a young child's leg. (AP Photo/Maddox Family)AP - A 14-year-old gymnast with a stress fracture in her lower back. A 12-year-old who tore his ACL in a soccer game. A 16-year-old runner with a leg stress fracture. A 15-year-old who tore his meniscus playing basketball.



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