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After analyzing dozens of studies, scientists predict 35.6 million cases of dementia worldwide by 2010.
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People with a susceptibility to colon cancer could cut their chances of developing the disease by taking a daily dose of aspirin, researchers say.
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Officials in Omaha, Neb., say plans to hang bras over the city’s busiest street to raise awareness for breast cancer might cause mass distraction and crashes.
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Studies of the new swine flu vaccine show children 10 and older will need just one shot for protection — but younger kids almost certainly will need two.
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U.S. health officials want to have 251 million doses of vaccine for the so-called swine flu.
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President Barack Obama says requiring people to get health insurance and fining them if they don’t would not amount to a backhanded tax increase.
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Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California’s rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state’s major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people.
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Global production of swine flu vaccines will be “substantially less” than the previous forecast of 94 million doses a week, the WHO says.
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Surviving breast cancer is a victory, but it can come with costs, including weakened thinking skills, former cancer patients say.
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A southern Illinois woman dies after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing problem in operating rooms.
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