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Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: NEW YORK - For people with asthma, those who are obese are nearly five times more likely than their non-obese peers to be hospitalized for asthma, new research indicates.

Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON - Nearly half of U.S. adults will develop painful arthritis of the knee, a leading cause of disability, and hospitalizations for the condition are soaring, researchers reported on Wednesday.

McClatchy Newspapers reports here at Yahoo News: “WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain’s choice of a running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, favors drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, questioned the science behind predictions of sea ice loss linked to global warming and opposed a state initiative that would have banned metal mines from discharging pollution into salmon streams.”

This sounds even worse then Bush!!

AP reports here at Yahoo News: A radioactive tracer that “lights up” cancer hiding inside dense breasts showed promise in its first big test against mammograms, revealing more tumors and giving fewer false alarms, doctors reported Wednesday.

AFP reports here at Yahoo News: MUNICH, Germany - Women typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday.

BBC News reports here: Patients have been urged to keep taking a cholesterol-lowering treatment despite a study linking it to higher cancer risk.

BBC News reports here: Search engine Google is launching an open source web browser, Chrome, to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

AFP reports here at Yahoo News: LONDON - Oil prices dived under 105 dollars on Tuesday, reaching 4-month lows, after Hurricane Gustav apparently spared key US energy facilities and Iran said OPEC must tackle excess production by members.