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Gates, US General Back Long Iraq Stay
Washington Post - 4 hours ago
By Ann Scott Tyson. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and a senior US commander said yesterday that they favor a protracted US troop presence in Iraq along the lines of the military stabilization force in South Korea.
Defense official says US may be in Iraq for 'protracted period' Honolulu Star-Bulletin
General doubtful on assessment deadline Los Angeles Times
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AP - The head of the largest program tracking the health of World Trade Center site workers said several have developed rare blood cell cancers, raising fears that cancer will become a "third wave" of illnesses among those exposed to toxic dust after Sept. 11.

Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Thursday that just six months after completing the roll-out of its $4 generic prescription drug program, 37.8 percent of all prescriptions it fills are $4 prescriptions.

GlaxoSmithKline PLC revealed Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has declined to grant a priority review to its experimental cancer vaccine Cervarix, adding to pressure on the drug maker after controversy surrounding its diabetes drug Avandia.

The FDA ruling means that Cervarix will have to go through a standard 10-month review, instead of a fast-track process that would have accelerated the approval and marketing of the vaccine in the key U.S. market.

Glaxo now expects to get the drug, which targets cervical cancer and is expected to become a multibillion-dollar product, to market in the United States sometime in 2008. Read more

AP - Asia is bracing for a dramatic surge in cancer rates over the next decade as people in the developing world live longer and adopt bad Western habits that greatly increase the risk of the disease.

AP - A study of more than 2,500 retired NFL players found that those who had at least three concussions during their careers had triple the risk of clinical depression as those who had no concussions.

AP - The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis apologized to fellow airline passengers in an interview aired Friday, and insisted he was told before he set out for his wedding in Europe that he was no danger to anyone.