Body and Health News

Eeeww. There’s a zoo full of critters living on your skin — a bacterial zoo, that is. Consider your underarm a rain forest.
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Eating for two? New guidelines are setting how much weight women should gain during pregnancy — surprisingly little if they’re already overweight.
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Babies who need stressful medical procedures may feel better with some tunes, a review finds.
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Tylenol and other drugs with acetaminophen may be more risky for livers than previously thought.
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Fewer smokers, earlier detection of cancer and better treatments mean that cancer rate is falling.
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Lawmakers in six states are debating whether to cut or reduce the state funding that helps seniors and disabled people buy their drugs.
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Special stockings commonly given to stroke patients to prevent blood clots don’t work, a new study finds.
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A man has trouble entering the U.S. because a cancer drug caused so much peeling that officials could not read his fingerprints.
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The world’s swine flu death toll reached 100 as two more New Yorkers died while infected with a virus that has sickened more than 12,000 people.
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After returning from six days on the run from court-ordered chemotherapy, a 13-year-old cancer patient is preparing for cancer treatment.
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