Body and Health News

More people die from polluted water every year than from all forms of violence, including war, the U.N. said in a report Monday that highlights the need for clean drinking water.
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When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare law in 1965, seniors got their health insurance cards less than a year later.
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Love or hate the country’s new health care policy, this much is indisputable: President Barack Obama accomplished a breathtaking feat that had eluded other presidents.
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A requirement tucked into the massive U.S health care bill will make calorie counts impossible for thousands of restaurants to hide and difficult for consumers to ignore.
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Raj Kaliya Dhanuk sits on a wooden bench, barefoot, with a tattered sari covering thin arms as rough as bark. Thick clear tears bleed from her eyes, milky saucers that stare at nothing.
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Even in the worst spasms of violence that followed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, cosmetic surgery didn’t go out of style.
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Jessica-Anne Becker clasped her husband’s hand tightly as they walked, a bit tentatively, down the hospital hallway.
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Some popular soft drinks and chips will have lower levels of added salt over the next few years, PepsiCo says.
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De’asia Renee Patricia Smith was delivered by paramedics at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday in the back of her father’s taxicab.
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Kelp fibers in bread could stop your body from absorbing fat.
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