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Gel balls new threat to toddlers, doctors say Reuters via Yahoo! News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:49 AM PDT (This story corrected the final paragraph in a story posted on September 17, 2012. Reuters Health was informed by another researcher that this was not the first case of a gel ball causing obstruction in a child, as was incorrectly reported by the senior author.) NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - After surgically removing a large gel ball blocking the intestines of a baby girl, Texas doctors are ... Kids' prescriptions often going unfilled Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:14 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A large share of medication prescriptions to children on Medicaid may go unfilled, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of nearly 17,000 prescriptions made to kids at two urban clinics, 22 percent were never filled. That's similar to what's been seen in studies of adults - among whom anywhere from 16 percent to 24 percent of prescriptions go unfilled. "There ... Report: Ohio nurse didn't realize she took kidney Associated Press via Yahoo! News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:59 AM PDT A nurse who accidentally disposed of a living donor's kidney during a transplant said she didn't realize it was in chilled, protective slush that she removed from an operating room, took down a hall to a dirty utility room and "flushed down a hopper," according to a report released by health officials on Monday. S. Arabia downplays impact of mystery virus on Hajj AFP via Yahoo! Maktoob News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:44 AM PDT Saudi health authorities downplayed Tuesday the impact of a possible outbreak of a virus from the family of deadly SARS on its forthcoming Hajj pilgrimage, stressing that the cases remain rare. Ontarian catches H1N1 variant after close contact with pigs Reuters via Yahoo! Canada Finance Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:53 AM PDT OTTAWA (Reuters) - An Ontario man has been infected with an H1N1 variant influenza virus after having had close contact with pigs, the province's chief medical officer of health said on Tuesday. H1N1 is a swine flu virus responsible for a pandemic that broke out in 2009, starting in the United States and Mexico and spreading around the world in six weeks. An influenza virus that normally ...

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