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David Oelerich stands by some of the Santa suits he rents to Santa's around New England and Canada at his "Costumes of Nashua" shop in Hudson, N.H., Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Ernest Berger, president of the nation's largest volunteer Santa group, wants Congress to declare Santas a high-priority for the vaccine for two reasons: they're exposed to hordes of children, and many of them are overweight. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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A. Bruce Clarke, president and chief executive officer of Capital Associated Industries, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, before House joint Health subcommittee and Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on "H1N1 Preparedness: An Overview of Vaccine Production and Distribution. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, before House joint Health subcommittee and Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on "H1N1 Preparedness: An Overview of Vaccine Production and Distribution. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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Dr. Anne Schuchat who heads the Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, before House joint Health subcommittee and Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on "H1N1 Preparedness: An Overview of Vaccine Production and Distribution. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, before House joint Health subcommittee and Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on "H1N1 Preparedness: An Overview of Vaccine Production and Distribution. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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Dr. Anne Schuchat who heads the Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, before House joint Health subcommittee and Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on "H1N1 Preparedness: An Overview of Vaccine Production and Distribution. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, before House joint Health subcommittee and Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on "H1N1 Preparedness: An Overview of Vaccine Production and Distribution. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, second from left, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, before House joint Health subcommittee and Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on "H1N1 Preparedness: An Overview of Vaccine Production and Distribution. From left are, Rear Adm. Dr. Anne Schuchat, who heads the Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; A. Bruce Clarke, president and chief executive officer of Capital Associated Industries; and Debra Ness president of the National Partnership for Women and Families.(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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Nathan Compton, 5, grimaces as he gets an H1N1 vaccination from nurse Leslie Trotter, left, as his mother Madeline Rubenstein, right, comforts him at a H1N1-swine flu clinic in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Pharmaceutical maker Novartis AG said Tuesday a U.S. clinical study suggests that half a dose of its swine flu vaccine may be sufficient to protect people from the virus and could allow many more to be immunized with current supplies.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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A man receives the H1N1 vaccination shot from a Jordanian nurse in a hospital in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Jordanian Health Ministry started a National vaccination campaign against the H1N1 virus across Jordan. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud)

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Thousands of people wait in line for hours to receive their H1N1 flu vaccine at the North York Civic Centre on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 in Toronto. Delivery of H1N1 vaccine to the provinces will slow a bit over the next couple of weeks because the manufacturer was asked to make special batches of the product for pregnant women, Canada's chief public health officer said Thursday, Oct. 29.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Evan Frustaglio, who died from the swine flu on Monday, Oct. 26, is shown in a family handout photo. A grief-stricken father whose otherwise healthy teenage son died suddenly from the swine flu struggled to make sense of the tragedy Tuesday and urged other parents to keep a close eye on their ill children.

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Paul Frustaglio breaks down while talking to the media about the death of his thirteen-year-old son Evan Frustaglio in Toronto, on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. A grief-stricken father whose otherwise healthy teenage son died suddenly from the swine flu struggled to make sense of the tragedy Tuesday and urged other parents to keep a close eye on their ill children.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Evan Frustaglio, who died from the swine flu on Monday, is shown in a Sept., 2009 family handout photo on the first day of school. A grief-stricken father whose otherwise healthy teenage son died suddenly from the swine flu struggled to make sense of the tragedy Tuesday and urged other parents to keep a close eye on their ill children.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Frustaglio Family

Michelle Mack has turned medical thinking upside down.
Born with only half a brain, Mack can speak normally, graduated from high school and has an uncanny knack for dates.

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Flowers at the gate of Blue Coat Church of England School in Coventry England Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009, after a pupil from the school died Monday after receiving the HPV1 Cervarix jab. Health authorities launched an investigation Tuesday into the death of a 14-year-old girl who had just received a vaccine for cervical cancer. Natalie Morton died in a hospital Monday, a few hours after being the given the Cervarix vaccine, which protects against two strains of the human papilloma virus that causes cervical cancer. She was vaccinated at her school in Coventry in central England.

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Health officials said Tuesday the batch of vaccine given at the school has been quarantined. A number of other girls at the school reported mild symptoms such as dizziness and nausea after receiving the shot.

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Carolyn Savage, 40, is seen at her home, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, in Sylvania, Ohio. Savage says a fertility clinic implanted the wrong embryo and that the baby she is about to give birth to is not hers. She and her husband are prepared to give the boy to his biological parents, whom they have met.

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Professor Karim Nayernia, is seen at Newcastle University and the NorthEast England Stem Cell Institute (Nesci), in Newcastle, England, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. British scientists claimed Wednesday to have created human sperm from stem cells but other experts questioned their data. Researchers at Newcastle University and the NorthEast England Stem Cell Institute say they used a new technique to derive what they described as sperm cells from embryonic stem cells. Stem cells have the potential to become any cell in the body. Newcastle research leader Karim Nayernia said in a statement Wednesday that the technique would allow researchers to study how sperm develops and possibly help develop treatments for infertile men.

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A woman who gave birth in a Wal-Mart washroom in Prince Albert, Sask., and left the baby behind has been found not guilty of child abandonment, a judge has ruled. Queen's Bench Justice Neil Gabrielson released his decision Wednesday, June 24, in the case of April Dawn Halkett, 22. He said the Crown didn't prove its case. During her judge-alone trial in May, Halkett testified that she did not realize she was pregnant when she went to use the store's washroom during a shopping trip in May 2007.

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Lillie Sutcliffe, 5, has a rare genetic ailment called cystinosis, a condition that causes crystals to form in the body. She must take a daily cocktail of drugs to prevent her body from turning to stone. Only about 2,000 people worldwide have the condition.

Noah Goodrich, Caters News/ZUMA Press

Shiloh Pepin was born with fused legs, a condition often called "mermaid syndrome." Though doctors expected the Maine girl to survive for a only a few days, she lived for 10 years. Shiloh died Oct. 23. Here, Shiloh sits on a counter at her family's Kennebunkport, Maine, home in 2007.

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Trudy Sharp has not had a bite of solid food in three years, due to severe intestinal problems, London's Telegraph newspaper reported. The 43-year-old has had digestive issues since she was a teen, and in 2006 she was told she needed her large and small bowel removed. Until she can get a multi-organ transplant, Sharp has to have liquid meals through a feeding tube. She's allowed three cups of tea each day.

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"Wolfboy" Larry Ramos Gomez of Mexico, here in 2007, suffers from a rare disorder called congenital generalized hypertrichosis that covers his face and other parts of his body with excessive hair. A reality TV dating show for Gomez was in the works this spring.

Mary Altaffer, AP

Twins Addison, left, and Cassidy Hempel, 5, suffer from a rare and fatal disease that saps their ability to walk, talk, eat and speak. The condition, Niemann-Pick Type C, afflicts about 500 children worldwide and is sometimes called "children's Alzheimer's." Thanks to lobbying by their mom, the Reno, Nev., twins got permission to begin experimental drug treatments in April.

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Michaela Dutton, 21, of Birmingham, England, is allergic to water, a condition that emerged after she gave birth to her son in 2005. She can't drink common beverages like coffee or tea, and she has to limit how much she can hold her son because tears, saliva and sweat trigger her allergy, leaving her with a painful rash. Water allergies affect just one in 230 million people.

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Reuben Grainger-Mead, left, was diagnosed at age 2 with a disorder that doctors likened to a permanent hangover. It stunted his growth, weakened him and made his heart race. Conventional treatments didn't help. Then a nutritionist found Reuben was low on certain amino acids and proteins. His parents changed his diet and now the 8-year-old is thriving.

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Robina Hutchings, who lives in England, suffers from trichotillomania, a disorder characterized by an uncontrollable desire to pull out hair. She told London's Daily Mail in April that she started pulling her hair out when she was 11, and still can't stop herself 27 years later.

Damien Mcfadden, Whitehotpix / ZUMA Press

Jean Driscoll, 72, told London's Daily Mail in March that she had been uncontrollably burping for two years. The British woman said that two doctors and three hospitals were unable to diagnose and treat her condition. "I don't go out anymore because I'm too embarrassed," she told the Daily Mail. "People laugh and stare at me."

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British baby Suraya Brown suffers from a mysterious condition that prevents her from growing, the Mirror reported in January. At 14 months, she is the size of a newborn, weighing 7 pounds and measuring only 19 inches long. "She has been a real conundrum," one doctor told the newspaper.

Daily Mirror / ZUMA Press