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Cynthia Preloh, with her husband Brian Preloh, rests in her hospital room after a kidney transplant at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. Preloh underwent an unusual procedure that allowed her to receive a kidney from her son, a kidney that she would otherwise have rejected. Preloh wasn't expected to survive the wait for a standard cadaver kidney. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Therapy helps hard-to-transplant get a new kidney

2 hours, 33 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Nearly one in three patients who need a kidney transplant may never get one because their bodies are abnormally primed to attack a donated organ. Now doctors are trying new ways to outwit the immune system and save more of those so-called "highly sensitized" patients — often with kidneys donated by living donors, considered the optimal kind.

  • Shelves for dairy products are seen empty in a supermarket in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. China is ordering all liquid and powdered milk manufactured before Sept. 14 to be taken off the shelves for melamine testing, the first time it has issued a blanket recall of products since the tainted dairy scandal broke last month. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
    China orders more testing for liquid milk, powder 2 hours, 11 minutes ago

    BEIJING - China is ordering all liquid and powdered milk manufactured before Sept. 14 to be taken off the shelves for melamine testing, a news report said Tuesday, the first time Beijing has issued a blanket recall of products since the tainted dairy scandal broke last month.

  • States ask baby product companies to avoid BPA Mon Oct 13, 4:13 PM ET

    HARTFORD, Conn. - Attorneys general from Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware sent letters Friday to 11 companies that make baby bottles and baby formula containers, asking they no longer use the chemical bisphenol A in their manufacturing because they said it was potentially harmful to infants.

  • Today, the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP) launches a new consumer education campaign with the help of money expert Suze Orman to remind Americans that milk is a nutritional bargain when compared to other beverages. At about 25 cents per 8 ounce glass, on a gallon basis, milk offers more nutrients per penny than almost any other beverage option in the supermarket -- providing key vitamins and minerals like calcium and vitamin D that are important for the entire family. Visit whymilk.com for more info. (PRNewsFoto/MilkPEP)
    Pediatricians double vitamin D recommendations Mon Oct 13, 8:44 AM ET

    CHICAGO - The nation's leading pediatricians group says children from newborns to teens should get double the usually recommended amount of vitamin D because of evidence that it may help prevent serious diseases.

  • EU tells music lovers to turn down MP3 players Mon Oct 13, 8:44 AM ET

    BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union told music lovers Monday to turn down the volume of MP3 players, saying they risk permanent hearing loss from listening too long at maximum levels.

  • In this June 5, 2008 file photo, chickens look out of their pen in a downtown neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia. When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. out of fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it 'the nuttiest thing' he'd ever heard. Yet buried deep inside an 86-page supplement to U.S. export regulations is a single sentence barring U.S. exports of vaccines for avian bird flu for the same reason. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyiah, File)
    US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears Sat Oct 11, 7:14 AM ET

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.

  • Limit on cold remedies for kids was FDA's idea Fri Oct 10, 5:59 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - When drug makers made a surprise announcement this week that they no longer recommend cough and cold remedies for youngsters under 4, they didn't let on that it was the government's idea.

  • A nurse at the Sizwe hospital TB ward in Edenvale on the outskirt of Johannesburg, South Africa. Zambia along with the World Health Organisation have joined the hunt for a mystery illness that has killed four people in South Africa.(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia)
    WHO probing deaths from mystery disease in SAfrica Fri Oct 10, 6:24 AM ET

    GENEVA - The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg.

  • 1 in 4 US teen girls got cervical cancer shot Thu Oct 9, 3:54 PM ET

    ATLANTA - One in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves for the relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said Thursday.

  • Karl Merk, center, and his surgeons Christoph Hoehnke, right, and Edgar Biemer, left, attend a news conference in Munich, southern Germany on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. Farmer Merk who received the world's first complete double arm transplant is recovering well and able to perform some basic tasks, though doctors said Wednesday it still could take up to two-years until he re-learns how to use his hands. Doctors spent 15 hours on July 25-26 grafting the donor arms onto the body of 54-year-old Karl Merk, who lost his own just below the shoulder in a farm accident involving a combine six years ago. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein)
    German doing well after 1st double arm transplant Wed Oct 8, 9:03 PM ET

    MUNICH, Germany - A German farmer who received the world's first complete double arm transplant said Wednesday that incredulity gave way to joy when he woke from surgery to discover he had arms again.

  • Stem cells from testicles an option to embryos Wed Oct 8, 5:32 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Cells taken from men's testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported Wednesday in what may be yet another new approach in a burgeoning scientific field.

  • Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday Oct. 13, 2008. Wall Street snapped back Monday from last week's devastating losses after major governments announced further steps to support the global banking system, including plans by the U.S. Treasury to buy stocks of some banks. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
    Manic Monday: Dow roars back from worst week ever Mon Oct 13, 7:21 PM ET

    NEW YORK - Wall Street stormed back after its worst week ever and staged the biggest single-day stock rally since the Great Depression on Monday, catapulting the Dow Jones industrials to a 936-point gain and finally offering relief from eight consecutive days of stock market carnage.

  • Ampoules containing a medium for stem cell storage are displayed at the UK Stem Cell Bank in north London, May 19, 2004. (Peter Macdiarmid/Reuters)
    University: Stem-cell study used falsified data Wed Oct 8, 1:59 AM ET

    MINNEAPOLIS - The University of Minnesota has concluded that falsified data were used in a 2001 article published by one of its researchers on adult stem cells. The school is asking that the article be retracted.

  • Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, left, celebrates with newly sworn-in vice presidents Joyce Mujuru, right, and Joseph Msika, center, at state house in Harare, Zimbabwe Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. European Union nations are condemning moves by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to take control over key ministries and ignoring a power-sharing deal with opposition parties. (AP Photo)
    Mugabe riles foes in Zimbabwe as mediator flies in Mon Oct 13, 3:52 PM ET

    HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe swore in two vice presidents Monday despite a deadlock in power-sharing talks with Zimbabwe's opposition movement, heightening tensions that are threatening to unravel the negotiations.

  • Get moving: Guidelines set healthy activity levels Tue Oct 7, 8:58 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Get moving: New exercise guidelines released Tuesday set a minimum sweat allotment for good health. For most adults, that's 2 1/2 hours a week. How much physical activity you need depends largely on age and level of fitness.

  • Court to hear appeals in landmark tobacco case 1 hour, 13 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - The tobacco industry is asking a federal appeals panel to overturn a landmark ruling that could open the door to more lawsuits from smokers claiming they were harmed because they were deceived by cigarette companies.