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By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – A European Union plan to label crude from the Alberta oil sands as dirty is unfair and could damage Canada’s bid to find new export markets, the Canadian resources minister said at the start of a mission to lobby against the idea. As part of a plan to cut greenhouse gases from transport fuel, the EU’s executive commission has developed a Fuel Quality Directive that would single out oil from Alberta’s tar sands as more polluting than conventional crude. Canada, whose oil sands are the world’s third-largest proven reserves of crude, strongly opposes the . . .

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Healthcare reform should be the signature Democratic achievement of President Barack Obama’s presidency. But with "Obamacare" five months from show time, Democrats are worried about whether enough Americans will sign up to make the sweeping healthcare overhaul a success – and what failure might mean for Congress heading into the 2016 presidential race. Some of the law’s main advocates fear that not enough of America’s 49 million uninsured will know about health coverage offered in their own states. . . .

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Peter Nguyen was a promising medical student when his school learned that he had tested positive for the hepatitis B virus. He said he was blackballed by school administrators and forced to halt his studies.

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(Reuters) – U. S. regulators have approved Johnson & Johnson’s Sedasys system to sedate patients during colonoscopies without the need for a physician to monitor delivery of the injectable sedating agent, the company said on Friday. The device injects the patients who have different types of colonoscopy procedures with propofol, a minimal-to-moderate sedation agent widely used in colonoscopy procedures. . . .

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NEW YORK (AP) ? Allison Guarino understands the controversy over new rules allowing 15-year-olds to buy the morning-after pill without a prescription. But as someone who teaches pregnancy prevention to ninth-graders in Boston, she thinks lowering the age will "help the girls who need the help the most. "

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Slayer co-founder Jeff Hanneman’s death from liver failure is still a mystery, but that hasn’t stopped fans from speculating as to why his liver failed when he was only 49. Making the rounds on Twitter and in the media is a theory that it was a spider bite two years ago that led to an infection that ultimtely led to his death.

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Thousands of people with serious medical problems are in danger of losing coverage under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul because of cost overruns, state officials say.

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Slayer co-founder Jeff Hanneman’s death from liver failure is still a mystery, but that hasn’t stopped fans from speculating as to why his liver failed when he was only 49. Making the rounds on Twitter and in the media is a theory that it was a spider bite two years ago that led to an infection that ultimtely led to his death.

Thousands of people with serious medical problems are in danger of losing coverage under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul because of cost overruns, state officials say.

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Women have another reason to exercise: It may help prevent kidney stones. You don’t have to break a sweat or be a super athlete, either. Even walking for a couple hours a week can cut the risk of developing this painful and common problem by about one-third, a large study found.

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