Body and Health News

Surviving breast cancer is a victory, but it can come with costs, including weakened thinking skills, former cancer patients say.
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Global production of swine flu vaccines will be “substantially less” than the previous forecast of 94 million doses a week, the WHO says.
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Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California’s rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state’s major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people.
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Seniors who for years have made flu shots a fall ritual are being sent to the end of the line for the swine flu vaccine. And the reason — their age group seems to have a bit of immunity — appears to have warded off most potential grumbling.
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Most people don’t question their health care costs, but some doctors are willing to make deals.
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Seniors are being sent to the end of the line for the swine flu vaccine because their age group seems to have a bit of immunity.
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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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A new government report shows one in three teenage girls have rolled up their sleeves for a relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer.
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The United States will share 10 percent of its swine flu vaccine supply with other nations to help fight the deadly virus’ global spread.
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President Barack Obama called reinventing health care a “defining struggle of this generation” on Thursday, even as several Democrats criticized some of the fine print in a Senate proposal the president has praised.
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