Body and Health News

Churches are sanitizing more to help stop the spread of the H1N1 virus.
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New reports on swine flu in Canada and Mexico describe rapidly worsening symptoms in the sickest patients.
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The word “Viagra” became an easy punch line when it was first marketed, but the $2.1 billion market now includes some strong competitors.
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A group that wants to improve health care in all states takes a look at which are doing the best and which have the most problems to fix.
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A hospital reviews its policy on service animals after forcing out a dog that alerts a boys parents when he is about to have a seizure.
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A new company claims its computers can figure out your allergy triggers, then cure them with a laser. Does it work?
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One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests. That’s a little higher than with ordinary seasonal flu, several experts said.
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Heart patients in the Philippines are given heart implants that were taken from dead patients in the U.S.
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U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years.
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Health officials said Friday that 76 U.S. children have died of swine flu, including 19 new reports in the past week — more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous for the young.
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