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A panel of health experts laid out a plan on Wednesday for vaccinating certain people first in the likely event that not enough swine flu vaccine will be available to immunize every American in time for the expected surge of cases this fall and winter.

Returning to their ranch-style house in Sacramento after a long summer workday, Jon and Kim Waldrep were routinely met by a wall of heat.

It was one year ago that the environmental scientist showed up at Fred Slowman

Four construction workers died and more than 50 were missing on Thursday after a landslide destroyed a dam project in Sichuan Province, in the latest of a series of disasters caused by heavy rains in southwest China. The downpours set off a landslide at the Changheba hydropower plant in Kangding, temporarily blocking a river, the Xinhua news agency said, citing the ministry of civil affairs.

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For the first time, scientists have shown that chimpanzees in the wild become sick and die from the simian version of AIDS.
The finding upsets a widely held scientific belief that chimpanzees, the closest relatives to humans, can get the virus that causes simian AIDS but without harm.

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Consultants hired by the Tennessee Valley Authority after a disastrous coal ash spill found widespread problems with how the nation

As New York City braces for a second wave of swine flu this fall, health officials are making plans to carve space out of hospitals, clinics and other buildings to screen people before they can overwhelm emergency rooms.