Body and Health News

Even if women smoke less than men, they are still more likely to get cancer at a younger age, researchers find.
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U.S. officials said Monday that it’s too early to say the swine-flu threat is receding, even though there are some signs the outbreak may not be as serious as originally feared.
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U.S. officials say they aren’t relaxing amid reports that swine flu may be milder than first feared.
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The swine flu epidemic spread deeper into the United States, Europe and Latin America — and in Canada, back to pigs — even as Mexico’s health chief hinted Sunday it may soon be time to reopen businesses and schools in the nation where the outbreak likely began.
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President Barack Obama is working with Mexico’s president on ways to keep the swine flu from spreading further and says the U.S. will be ready if the flu strain develops into something worse.
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The swine flu epidemic spread deeper into the United States, Europe and Latin America — and in Canada, back to pigs — even as Mexico’s health chief hinted Sunday it may soon be time to reopen businesses and schools in the nation where the outbreak likely began.
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Egyptian police and armored cars charged into a crowd of a 1,000 irate pig farmers armed with stones and bottles, leaving 12 people injured as residents of a Cairo slum resisted government efforts to slaughter the nation’s pigs to guard against swine flu.
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The tally of confirmed swine flu cases in the United States jumped Sunday to 241 in 34 states, but officials said that’s largely from catching up on a backlog of lab tests rather than a sudden spurt in new infections.
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The Spanish Health Ministry says the country now has 20 confirmed cases of swine flu, making Spain the hardest-hit nation in Europe amid the swine flu outbreak.
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Mexico reports no new deaths from swine flu — more reason to be optimistic that the worst is over at the epicenter of the outbreak. But the virus keeps spreading around the world.
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