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Older Diabetics With Depression Face Higher Death Rate (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 10 (HealthDay News) -- In a group of Medicare beneficiaries who have diabetes, being depressed was associated with a higher death rate, according to a new study.

Clinical Trials Update: Oct. 10, 2008 (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:

Chemo Alone Effective in Treating Kids' Brain Tumors (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Using chemotherapy alone, and delaying or avoiding radiation altogether, may be effective in treating children with inoperable or progressive low-grade glioma brain tumors, according to a multi-institutional study.

WHO probing deaths from mystery disease in SAfrica (AP)

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

US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears (AP)

AP - 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 (AP)
AP - 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.

Obesity increases risk of miscarriage (Reuters)
Reuters - Obesity appears to increase the risk of miscarriage, according to a review study appearing in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

1 in 4 US teen girls got cervical cancer shot (AP)
AP - One in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves for the relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said Thursday.

HPV infection rates similar in men and women (Reuters)
Reuters - Although men are at high risk of acquiring human papillomavirus (HPV) infections, most last no more than a year, about the same time this sexually transmitted disease persists in women, researchers report in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Racial Disparities Exist in Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Blacks and the poor have worse outcomes when it comes to head and neck cancer, researchers say.