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NEW YORK – The “chicken and the egg” approach to mass-producing influenza vaccines may soon fly the coop. Although the tried-and-true — yet slow — process of making vaccines from flu viruses grown in fertilized chicken eggs is currently the only method approved in the United States, various drug companies …

WASHINGTON – Hoping to protect U.S. shores from being hammered by a tsunami, the White House directed federal agencies Friday to increase earthquake and volcano monitoring systems, deep ocean buoys and other high-tech means of alerting oceanside communities. The tsunami plan was requested by President Bush and Congress after an …

WASHINGTON – When the cop shop at TV’s “Law & Order: SVU” uncovered a murder plot earlier this fall surrounding a man who killed homosexuals who spread HIV through a dance club, a health message was behind the script: Meth use among gay men is on the rise, and it …