Body and Health News

The uninsured linger in the background as Congress struggles with a health care overhaul that seems to have the best odds in years of passing.
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More women with an early stage of breast cancer choose to have a double mastectomy, a doctor says, though it may not improve survival rates.
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Heartburn, reflux and asthma can all be tied together. But doctors aren’t sure which drugs will help the most patients.
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A government report says Americans didn’t suffer more food poisoning last year despite high-profile outbreaks.
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The shuttered Texas plant owned by a peanut company blamed in a national salmonella outbreak that sickened nearly 700 people is fined a record $14.6 million.
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A former nurse charged with murder after allegedly injecting 10 patients with bleach at a dialysis clinic is being made a scapegoat by the medical facility, her attorney says.
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Protests against a ban on concentrated liquid morphine that is often used in hospice situations change regulators’ minds.
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Seeing-eye dogs are a nonstarter among many Muslims who consider the animals unclean, but a horse the size of a dog just might work.
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A Boston hospital performs the nation’s second face transplant on a man who suffered traumatic facial injuries from a fall.
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New York officials sat they found no trace of salmonella in a Long Island nut processing plant whose sister company sparked a vast nationwide recall of pistachios last week.
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