Body and Health News

Doctors remove a 1-inch piece of plastic that was lodged in the lung of a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits.
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One in three teenage girls have rolled up their sleeves for a vaccine against cervical cancer, but vaccination rates vary dramatically between states, according to a federal report released Thursday.
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After nine years without sight, a grandmother is finally able to see again.
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Taco Bell isn’t health food, but you can pick items that satisfy without busting a gut.
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Finding out how much a medical procedure costs can be more difficult and mysterious than buying a new car.
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Speaking as a mother, daughter and first lady — but not as a policy-maker like one of her predecessors — Michelle Obama urged women on Friday to join her husband’s fight to overhaul health care.
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Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. said on Friday that its obesity drug candidate lorcaserin succeeded in a clinical study, but the drug did not appear to be as effective as other treatments competitors have in development.
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Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts say.
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President Barack Obama is sitting down for interviews with five television networks this afternoon, a highly unusual schedule even for a president who regularly uses the media to get his message across.
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A southern Illinois woman dies after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing problem in operating rooms.
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