Body and Health News

A government program that brings extra scrutiny to poorly performing nursing homes leaves out hundreds of troubled facilities, investigators report.
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The drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and other toxins.
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Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that’s killed dozens of dogs and sickened many people.
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More than 3,000 people a day have a heart attack. If you’re one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries?
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Unknown allergies and accidental overdoses leave over half a million kids with bad side effects each year.
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The family of cheerleader who died after corrective breast surgery files a lawsuit against a plastic surgeon and anesthesiologist.
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A study possibly reveals a way to tell which men with prostate cancer need surgery or chemotherapy and which can live with the disease.
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Scientists aren’t sure why being overweight boosts cancer risk, but research shows that it does.
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More swine flu vaccine will arrive the first week of October than officials previously thought — between 6 million and 7 million doses.
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An Ohio woman who is carrying another woman’s baby because of a fertility clinic error says she’s still not sure where to place the blame.
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