Body and Health News

Feeding a baby naturally appears to make women less likely to develop breast cancer before menopause.
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Braced for a fight he never got, President Barack Obama went on the offensive in support of his health care plan Tuesday, urging a town hall audience not to listen to those who seek to “scare and mislead the American people.”
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A heart transplant recipient who lived a record 31 years with a single donated organ has died at age 51 of cancer, his heart still going strong, his widow said.
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The Happy Meal — a burger, fries and a drink — started the kids’ meal craze. Options are more sophisticated now.
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Using tiny needles and Eastern medicine to treat pain could make Western drugs work better, a researcher says.
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Fifty-one U.S. troops in Iraq come down with swine flu, and 81 others may have it as well.
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President Barack Obama predicts Congress will pass his health care overhaul this fall as more “sensible and reasoned arguments” prevail.
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A small number of law enforcement officers who helped with the Sept. 11 rescue and cleanup have an immune system cancer.
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Some say expensive treatments can help pets with arthritis.
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Using better-than-expected jobs numbers to press his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama argued Saturday that overhauling the nation’s costly health care system is essential to the country’s economic well-being.
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