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> World Health Organization officials said yesterday that a suspicious cluster of deaths at a remote Indonesian village were probably not caused by human transmission of the H5N1 virus. Article

> Officials in New Jersey are on the defensive after this week's Dartmouth study on the cost of end of life care for the chronically ill. Article

> Texas Health Resources gets a $1 million grant from the AT&T Foundation to set up an institute for the study of Health IT. Article

> Aspyra, a maker of clinical and diagnostic Information Systems, said that it has raised $4.5 million in a private placement of its common stock. Article

>  Chutes & Ladders: T. Michael Preston, director of MedChi, the state medical society of Maryland, is stepping down. Article

And Finally ... The next Vioxx? Bausch & Lomb's liability in the ReNu lens cleaner case may exceed $1 billion, experts say. Article