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Hands-only CPR, pushy dispatchers are lifesavers (AP)
AP - More bystanders are willing to attempt CPR if an emergency dispatcher gives them firm and direct instructions — especially if they can just press on the chest and skip the mouth-to-mouth, according to new research.
DC pushes female condoms to fight HIV epidemic (AP)
NYC looks to stop spreading bedbug infestations (AP)
AP - One of every 15 New Yorkers battled bedbugs last year, officials said Wednesday as they announced a plan to fight the spreading infestation, including a public-awareness campaign and a top entomologist to head the effort.
U.S. a Leader in Tension Between Adults and Their Parents (LiveScience.com)
FDA considering changes to risky drug safeguards (Reuters)
Hands-only CPR, pushy dispatchers are lifesavers (AP)
AP - More bystanders are willing to attempt CPR if an emergency dispatcher gives them firm and direct instructions — especially if they can just press on the chest and skip the mouth-to-mouth, according to new research.
'Excellence' centers no better for bariatric surgery (Reuters)
Mental health experts ask: Will anyone be classifed as 'normal'? (Reuters)
Reuters - An updated edition of a mental health bible for doctors may include diagnoses for "disorders" such as toddler tantrums and binge eating, experts say, and could mean that soon no-one will be classed as normal.
Indian minister warns of fruit and veg hormone injections (AFP)
AFP - Indian farmers are injecting a hormone sometimes given to women during childbirth into vegetables and fruits to make the produce ripen sooner and gain weight, an Indian minister has warned.
Mom's pregnancy diet not tied to wheezing risk (Reuters)
DC pushes female condoms to fight HIV epidemic (AP)
AP - Charlene Cotton will talk to anyone about sex. Several days a week she stands behind a table decorated with a bowl of flavored condoms and safer sex pamphlets, calling to women passing on the street, "Come check out my table. Don't be scared."




