FDA weighs over-counter cholesterol drug (AP) 
AP - The government is questioning if too many of the wrong people will take cholesterol-lowering Mevacor if it's sold without a prescription, days before Merck & Co. makes its third try to move the drug over the counter.
Source: news.yahoo.comFDA approves HIV drug etravirine (AP) 
AP - Tablets of the drug etravirine were approved Friday by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of HIV infection in adults who have failed treatment with other antiretrovirals.
Source: news.yahoo.comMinn. health system purges drug trinkets (AP) 
AP - When a Duluth-based operator of hospitals and clinics purged the pens, notepads, coffee mugs and other promotional trinkets drug companies had given its doctors over the years, it took 20 shopping carts to haul the loot away.
Source: news.yahoo.comUS abortions at lowest rate since 1974 (AP) 
AP - The number of abortions in the United States fell to 1.2 million in 2005, down 25 percent from the all-time high of 1.6 million in 1990 and dropping the abortion rate to its lowest level since 1974, according to report issued Thursday.
Source: news.yahoo.comIndia struggles to contain bird flu as farmers resist cull (AFP) 
AFP - Laboratory workers on Saturday analysed new samples from dead chickens amid fears that India's worst-ever bird flu outbreak may have spread in eastern India as locals resisted a massive cull.
Source: news.yahoo.comBird flu spreads to new districts in India's east (Reuters) 
Reuters - Bird flu spread to two new districts in an eastern Indian state, officials confirmed on Saturday, as veterinary staff struggled to cull thousands of birds in the face of resistance from farmers.
Source: news.yahoo.com
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