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• Health Officials Debate Food Allergy Warnings
  WASHINGTON (AP) - It's one of the biggest frustrations of life with food allergies: That hodgepodge of warning...
• New Attack Ad on TV Takes Bite Out of Hot Dogs
  CHICAGO (AP) - A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy's haunt...
• Number of Uninsured Dips in 2007
  WASHINGTON (AP) - As housing markets started to stumble last year, the number of poor people jumped by 816,000...
• New Technique Sidesteps Stem Cells
  Aug. 27--After more than a decade of trying to harvest the promise of embryonic stem cells, scientists have hi...
• Brisbane Company Gets FDA Approval to Sell Blood Test for Heart Transplant Patients
  Aug. 27--Mercury News Brisbane-based XDx on Wedneday won federal approval to sell a blood test it developed t...
• NYC HIV Spreading at Triple the U.S. Rate
  Nearly 4,800 New Yorkers contracted HIV in 2006 -- three times the national rate, New York City Health Departm...
• Stunning Regenerative Medicine Study Cited
  U.S. scientists, in what's called a stunning achievement, have transformed one type of adult mouse cell direct...
• Upbeat U.S. Census Data Mask Economic Plight
  Aug. 27--WASHINGTON -- Wages for working Americans increased, the number of people without health insurance d...
• More Dough but Less Bread
  Aug. 27--Median household income and earnings in New Jersey rose slightly last year after accounting for infl...
• Punditry
  Picking up our dusty copy of Joe Biden autobiography the other day, we were struck by two points that undersco...