Health Highlights: May 12, 2008
(HealthDay via Yahoo! News - May 12, 2008)

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

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Burma Faces 'Public Health Catastrophe,' Charity Says
(Washington Post - May 12, 2008)

BANGKOK, May 11 -- An estimated 1.5 million Burmese are on the brink of a "massive public health catastrophe," the British charity Oxfam warned Sunday, as survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of the devastated Irrawaddy Delta into regional towns in search of water, food and other help.

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US health secretary: Chinese Heparin shipped to US now safe
(AP via Yahoo! News - May 12, 2008)

A blood thinner manufactured in China and linked to dozens of deaths in the United States is now safe because of tighter testing and controls, a top American health official said Monday, while warning that all U.S. imports would face closer scrutiny in the future.

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Health-conscious Japanese women are running in style
(International Herald Tribune - May 12, 2008)

Among the increasing number of young women acquiring a sports/health consciousness are those who have embraced the latest Tokyo fad: running. And fashion houses are benefitting.

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Cardinal Health closes $490M Enturia acquisition
(AP via Yahoo! Finance - May 12, 2008)

Cardinal Health Inc., a provider of health care products and services, said Monday it closed its $490 million acquisition of Enturia Inc. for $490 million.

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