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Decline In Teen Smoking Stalls
Decline In Teen Smoking Stalls (FOXReno)
The steady decline in teen smoking has stalled. According to "Monitoring the Future," the University of Michigan's annual survey of the nation's adolescents, in 2006, about one-fifth of U.S. high school seniors smoked at least monthly, down from more than a third who did so in 1996.

U.S. updates guidelines for diagnosing Alzheimer's (Canada)
The United States on Tuesday announced that guidelines for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, have been updated for the first time in almost three decades.

Novartis Q1 seen hit by absence of flu drug sales (WOZZ-FM Appleton)
Novartis AG is likely to be the latest drugmaker to show it too has been hit by a collapse in sales of pandemic flu medicines when it posts its first-quarter results on Tuesday.

Jab 'could reduce tissue damage'
Jab 'could reduce tissue damage' (Salisbury Journal)
An injection given to heart attack and stroke sufferers could radically reduce their devastating effects, a new study claims.

Miss. Gov. Barbour has surgery for lower back pain (Times Post)
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, has returned to the Governor's Mansion after having surgery to relieve lower back pain.

Drugmaker Eli Lilly's 1Q profit falls 15 percent (Daily Herald)
Drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co.'s first-quarter profit fell 15 percent because of severance costs, a diabetes drug development agreement and another hit from the U.S. health care overhaul.

AIDS Prevention Pill Study Halted
AIDS Prevention Pill Study Halted ( KMBC-TV)
Researchers are stopping a study that tests a daily pill to prevent infection with the AIDS virus in thousands of African women because partial results show no signs that the drug is doing any good.

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