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Scientists Solve Bone Disease Mystery
Scientists have discovered a mutant gene that triggers the body to form a second, renegade skeleton, solving the mystery of a rare disease called FOP that imprisons children in bone for life.

States Spar Over Federal HIV/AIDS Funds
AIDS started as a big-city epidemic infecting mostly gay white men, and now it's prevalent in the South and among minorities. Yet the federal law that helps the neediest patients has not kept up with that evolution.

• Women's HIV Gel Said Possible by 2010

• Tests: Pigeons Don't Pose Bird Flu Trouble

• U.S. Poultry Farms Defend Against Bird Flu

• Mixture Limits E. Coli, Salmonella in Meat

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Fatigue gene isolated
Chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition sometimes given short shrift as groundless complaints from people whose illness is "all in their heads," actually is caused by genetic mutations that inhibit the body's ability to respond to stress, researchers announced yesterday.

Saliva enzyme a clue to human stress
Scientists say a little drool may help determine a baby's mood.

Mumps outbreak grows
The Midwestern mumps outbreak involving eight states may have spread into seven additional states in what now constitutes the largest flare-up in more than two decades, federal health officials said yesterday.

Twins lend their healing hands
Word spread quickly through the war-torn city of Kabul and nearby villages that two tall, black American surgeons were performing operations in Afghanistan. Everywhere, people stared from one face to the other, some whispering a single word, as if in prayer.

• Photos: Vince and Vance Moss in Afghanistan

Briefing
Death rate drop
The number of deaths in the United States dropped by 50,000 in 2004 - the largest decline in more than 60 years. Drops in death rates for heart disease, cancer and stroke accounted for most of the development, health officials said. Overall, age-adjusted death rates fell to a record low of 801 deaths per 100,000 population in 2004, down from almost 833 deaths per 100,000 in 2003. "These are preliminary data," Paul Terry, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Atlanta's Emory University, told The Associated Press. "But if it holds up, it's obviously very good news." The government also said yesterday that U.S. life expectancy had inched up again, to a record high of 77.9 years.

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AP Health

• Women's HIV Gel Said Possible by 2010 (Apr 23)

• Correction: Bad-Heroin Story (Apr 23)

• Tests: Pigeons Don't Pose Bird Flu Trouble (Apr 23)

• Scientists Solve Bone Disease Mystery (Apr 23)

• China Tries Using Clowns in Hospitals (Apr 22)