Body and Health News

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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A study finds that people who eat a little chocolate each day have less chance of heart problems.
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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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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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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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A former baseball star and his wife open up about life with a song with Asperger’s syndrome.
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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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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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A group of outside experts will scrutinize the World Health Organization’s response to the swine flu outbreak and likely examine whether the global body could have been clearer when it declared a pandemic of what has turned out to be a relatively mild disease, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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Relief to seniors facing high prescription drug costs is one of the first changes to come under the new health care overhaul. But ultimately that won’t offset the relentless increase in retirees’ medical expenses.
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