Body and Health News

New results from a landmark women’s health study raise the exciting possibility that bone-building drugs such as Fosamax and Actonel may help prevent breast cancer.
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Patient advocates say a loophole in the Senate health care bill that would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care is unacceptable.
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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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Even people without nerve endings in the skin can sense the world around them, leading doctors to find new aspects of the sensory system.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers hopes to finally win a long struggle to ease curbs against importing low-cost prescription drugs but will have to overcome the Obama administration and the pharmaceutical industry to do so.
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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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Is Mozart good for babies?
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Swine flu has sickened about 50 million Americans, and killed about 10,000, according to new estimates released by federal health officials on Thursday.
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