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Saturday, 3 January 2009 at 4:17 pm Posted by smp

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Cell phone soap operas deliver safe-sex message (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 01:15 PM CST

Rutgers College of nursing professor Rachel Jones talks in her home office in Boonton Township, N.J., Saturday Jan. 3, 2009. Jones who has dedicated her career to reducing HIV/AIDS among young, urban black and Latina women, recently received a $2 million National Institutes of Health grant to test the effectiveness of using short videos to go beyond pamphlets on safe sex and deliver the message to women who might otherwise tune it out. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - "Hey baby, you OK?" Mike asks his girlfriend as she sits down next to him.

Danny's heart: College swimmer faces mortality (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 04:47 PM CST

Danny Thrall, 19, a sophomore on the swim team at Fordham University in New York, forms his hands in the shape of a heart over the scars from open heart surgery he had about six weeks earlier during workouts at a downtown Chicago health club Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. A routine physical in September revealed a problem with a valve in his heart that required the surgery. Six weeks later he is back in the pool and hopes to get back to competitive form. In January, he will return to Fordham and hopes to practice with his teammates, even if he can't compete this season. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - This time, when the lanky young man stepped into the pool, his chest was tight. His muscles ached. He pushed off to take his first strokes, and grimaced at the pain.

Doctor, former patient now colleagues in Detroit (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 09:24 AM CST

This undated picture provided by the Henry Ford Hospital shows Dr. Trevor Banka, left, and Dr. Michael Mott, in the operating room at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Mich. (AP Photo/Henry Ford Hospital)AP - When Dr. Trevor Banka treats cancer patients alongside Dr. Michael Mott he is working with not only his mentor, but the physician who helped save his life.

Recording studio in hospital about more than music (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 09:23 AM CST

Jalen Huckabay, right, contemplates the song she is writing as her mother Karen, left, waits outside the studio door at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. The hospital has a one-of-a-kind program that gives pediatric cancer patients a chance to record their own songs. More than 116 songs have been recorded since Purple Songs began in March 2006 as part of the cancer center's Arts in Medicine program. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Just down the hall from the chemo infusion rooms at Texas Children's Hospital, Jalen Huckabay was about to slip into another world, away from the wearying regimen of pokes, prods and pinches she'd endured since being diagnosed with lymphoma in November.

Contraceptive pill is polluting environment: Vatican newspaper (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 03:29 PM CST

A woman holds prescription contraceptives. The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Matsui)AFP - The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday.

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