Body and Health News

The health insurance industry doesn’t want Congress to let you off easy if you decide to ignore a proposed requirement that all Americans must have coverage.
By fox5vegas.com

Vaccine is the best tool against swine flu despite reports of a few minor side effects from the initial campaign in China, the WHO says.
By fox5vegas.com

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in February and has since undergone two months of radiation treatment.
By fox5vegas.com

A new immunization could make it so that people don’t get pleasure from taking cocaine.
By fox5vegas.com

Vaccine-like shots to keep cocaine abusers from getting high also helped them fight their addiction, a new study finds.
By fox5vegas.com

Fighting breast cancer has become a family’s mission after four of five sisters were diagnosed with the disease.
By fox5vegas.com

Eight months in office, Barack Obama has now pushed closer than any other president in generations to creating a basic health care safety net for working Americans. Yet the fate of legislation delivering on his goal is far from certain: Republicans are nearly unified in opposition, Democrats hardly united in support.
By fox5vegas.com

The first vaccinations against swine flu — the squirt-in-the-nose kind — begin early next week in parts of the country.
By fox5vegas.com

Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to have hallucinations and delusions, a study finds.
By fox5vegas.com

Surgeons perform eye surgery on a female gorilla at Miami Metrozoo on Friday.
By fox5vegas.com