Body and Health News

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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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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The Atkins diet doesn’t cause more weight loss than a low-fat diet and isn’t worth the risks, a researcher says.
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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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