Body and Health News

President Barack Obama is making a fresh attempt to rescue his health care overhaul.
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The diabetes drug Avandia caused 83,000 heart attacks between 1999 and 2007, the FDA says.
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Experts say you shouldn’t focus on your ultimate results when changing your life. Just look for small things you can measure.
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Long a fixture among young people, use of the country’s most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set.
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An over-the-counter painkiller seems to lower the chances that people will get Parkinson’s disease.
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The government is taking steps to curb use of some long-acting asthma drugs taken by millions, issuing safety restrictions Thursday to lower an uncommon but potentially life-threatening risk that asthma could worsen suddenly.
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A new study says that happier people are 22 percent less likely to have heart problems.
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A new study finds that premiums for Medicare Advantage plans offering medical and prescription drug coverage jumped 14.2 percent on average in 2010, after an increase of only 5.2 percent the previous year.
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People and dolphins can harbor some of the same viruses, which could be a clue in fighting human disease, marine biologists say.
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It took five long months for a Czech woman to discover the reason for her pain: Doctors had left a foot-long medical tool inside her.
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