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SEATTLE – A close friend of Washington Lt. Gov. Brad Owen shot one of Owen’s sons in an apparent workplace dispute Monday afternoon and then shot himself in the head, the lieutenant governor said. Mark Owen, 37, was listed in satisfactory condition Monday evening at Harborview Medical Center. The lieutenant …

A U.S. clinical study suggests that just half a dose of the Novartis AG H1N1 vaccine may be enough to generate a protective immune response, the Swiss drugmaker said on Tuesday. Novartis said data from about 4,000 individuals suggested that half a dose of its U.S.-approved unadjuvanted H1N1 vaccine met …

SAN FRANCISCO – Three members of a California family are in intensive care after eating mushrooms they picked in the wild. Officials at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco say the three have been hospitalized since Tuesday after eating so-called “death cap” mushrooms. The mushrooms are among the world’s …