Body and Health News

A study finds that people who eat a little chocolate each day have less chance of heart problems.
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Will a national requirement for chain restaurants to post calorie counts sound the death knell for bacon cheeseburgers and double chocolate doughnuts?
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Cancer patients who also have diabetes are more likely to die within a month of having tumors removed.
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Jamie Oliver tried to teach children at an elementary school a new way to eat. They prefer pizza and chicken nuggets.
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A former Food and Drug Administration scientist said Tuesday his job was eliminated after he raised concerns about the risks of radiation exposure from high-grade medical scanning.
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Five years after the court fight over allowing Terri Schiavo to die, most Americans still don’t draft the legal documents that spell out how far caregivers should go to keep them alive artificially.
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President Barack Obama has signed a law that finalizes his health care overhaul and makes the government the issuer of all federal college loans.
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After battling President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats over the health care overhaul, the insurance industry says it won’t block the administration’s efforts to fix a potentially embarrassing glitch in the new law.
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Women who were abused as children are more likely to have problems even when they’re happy to be having children, a study says.
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Young adults who buy their own insurance will carry a heavier burden of the medical costs of older Americans.
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