NEW YORK – Sprint Corp. (FON) said on Monday it has agreed to buy wireless affiliate US Unwired Inc. (UNWR) for about $1.3 billion, ending a series of legal disputes between the two companies. Sprint, which also has a pending deal to buy Nextel Communications Inc. (NXTL), said it would …
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Testosterone treatment may help rev up a woman’s sex drive. Yet measuring blood levels of the sex hormone doesn’t help diagnose women who suffer from low libido. Researchers compared self-reported sex drive with blood levels of testosterone and other male sex hormones in a randomly selected group of women. While …
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LOS ANGELES – Zsa Zsa Gabor (search) suffered an apparent stroke at her Bel-Air home and underwent emergency surgery to clear a blocked artery. The two-hour operation late Wednesday was successful and the 88-year-old actress was expected to return home within three days, husband Frederic von Anhalt (search) said Thursday. …
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The body’s natural defenses work better after “keyhole” gut surgery than after open surgery, a new study shows. Thanks to new surgical tools, doctors now can perform many kinds of operations without having to make the large incisions typical of open surgery. These minimally invasive surgical techniques are often called …
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The FDA today has issued a health advisory regarding the safe use of fentanyl skin patches (brand name Duragesic) in response to reports of deaths in patients using this potent narcotic medication for pain management. The FDA is conducting an investigation into the deaths associated with these patches. It’s unclear …
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People walking by a Long Island, N.Y., middle school Sunday afternoon got quite an eyeful — a young couple, buck naked, going at it on the school roof. “The officers observed the two individuals on the roof as God made them — they were naked and they were engaging in …
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LONDON – Police stormed a brown-brick duplex Wednesday and used a stun gun to arrest a Somali suspected of being one of four men behind botched attacks in London — a breakthrough that could yield the inside story on terror bombings that set the British capital on edge. Yasin Hassan …
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WASHINGTON – The White House said Thursday that Iran’s incoming president was a leader of the student movement that orchestrated the capture of the U.S. Embassy in 1979, but the United States still hasn’t determined whether he took hostages as alleged by some of those who were held. Six former …
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NEW YORK – Merck & Co. (MRK) on Thursday reported a drop in second-quarter profit, hurt by a tax charge and the withdrawal last year of its Vioxx (search) arthritis drug. Total sales fell 9 percent to $5.5 billion, primarily due to the loss of Vioxx revenue, which at one …
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – De Beers S.A. (search) , the world’s biggest diamond producer, said Monday its profit fell by 0.6 percent in the first half of the year because of a weaker dollar and fewer sales of stockpiled gems. However, De Beers said the market for rough diamonds remains …
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