Body and Health News

President Barack Obama and top Democrats began trying to shape a final health overhaul bill on Wednesday in a White House meeting that underscored their desire to strike a quick deal on the administration’s top domestic priority.
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Raise a glass of diet soda, the nation’s obesity rate seems to have leveled off. But more than two-thirds of adults and almost a third of children are overweight, and there are no signs of improvement.
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Reports of high cadmium content in children’s jewelry imported from China have prompted a senior U.S. senator to press for legislation that would ban the toxic heavy metal as a hazardous substance from those products and toys.
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Mexico — the epicenter of last year’s swine flu outbreak — has received less than half of the 30 million vaccine doses it ordered last year, the country’s health secretary said Tuesday.
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Nearly half of all births in China are delivered by cesarean section, the world’s highest rate, according to a survey by the World Health Organization — a shift toward modernization that isn’t necessarily a good thing.
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New Jersey could soon become the 14th state to allow people with chronic conditions to smoke pot legally.
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An author says that going 30 days without sex will help some people fix their relationships.
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First there was too little swine flu vaccine. Now could there be way too much?
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For a pizza joint, it’s a bold move to tell customers your crust tasted like cardboard and your sauce was like ketchup.
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Do your healthy habits go out the window the minute you get on an airplane or take a road trip? Use these tips to fight back.
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