Body and Health News

President Barack Obama will meet with Senate Democrats at the White House Tuesday to press for action at a make-or-break moment for his health care overhaul.
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The end game at hand, Senate Democrats appeared ready to jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from sweeping health care legislation Monday.
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Thirteen desperately ill people got needed kidneys in a marathon six days of surgery in a record-setting kidney swap.
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A crucial part of the nation’s rapid-reponse plan — the ability to trace food through the supply chain during an illness outbreak or bioterrorism attack — is seriously flawed, an independent watchdog agency has found.
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Health officials say winter flu is just starting to show up in the U.S. while swine flu infections continue to wane.
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Some women with very advanced breast cancer may have a new treatment option. A combination of two drugs that more precisely target tumors significantly extended the lives of women who had stopped responding to other medicines, doctors reported Friday.
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You’ve probably heard about free radicals that lead to aging and some diseases. But what can you do about them?
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In a victory for people with cancer and other serious medical problems, the White House agreed Friday to help close a loophole in the Senate health care bill allowing annual dollar limits on their care.
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President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul — now looking like a real possibility — should give uninsured Americans options they’ve never had before. But it won’t be a free ride.
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Even people who think they know what medicines were used when they were in the hospital have only a vague idea, a study finds.
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