Body and Health News

World health officials worry that a deadly swine flu virus in Mexico could unleash a global flu epidemic.
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Scientists grow blood vessels for kidney patients from their own cells, making it easier and safer for them to use dialysis machines, a new study says.
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On the eve of World Malaria Day, the head of UNICEF says there is enough money available to provide bed nets treated with long-lasting insecticide to everyone in Africa at risk of malaria by 2010.
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The Army has approved new guidance to military commanders in an effort to stem the rising toll of soldier suicides.
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A man says he agreed to give a kidney to his twin brother because “I know he would do the same for me.”
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President Barack Obama is committed to making the United States a global leader in ending the nearly 1 million deaths annually from malaria by 2015, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says.
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The Army has approved new guidance to military commanders in an effort to stem the rising toll of soldier suicides.
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Doctors in England say that even as they find more breast cancer in women, fewer die from the disease.
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A mother whose 8-year-old daughter died suddenly from undiagnosed juvenile diabetes urges parents to have their children tested and to watch out for warning signs.
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Deputies said a woman in South Florida has faked a miscarriage. The Broward county Sheriff’s Office responded an emergency call of a possible miscarriage just before 8 a.m. Tuesday at an Oakland Park apartment. Upon arrival, they learned a woman staged the incident using what authorities described only as “animal tissue.”
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