Body and Health News

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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After agreeing tentatively to jettison a key liberal priority — a full-blown government-run insurance option — Democrats say they are getting close to pushing President Barack Obama’s health care bill through the Senate.
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President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday the government is spending almost $600 million for community health centers and for a push to transfer medical records to electronic formats.
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In a new report on tobacco use and control, the World Health Organization says at least 5 million people die every year due to smoking-related illness.
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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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President Barack Obama as well as Democratic liberals and moderates all found something to like Wednesday in an emerging compromise to expand the role of government in the nation’s health care system.
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Otherwise healthy people don’t get much relief from the flu by taking an antiviral drug, researchers say.
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Colon cancer deaths could drop dramatically in the next decade because of better screening and treatment, according to an optimistic new prediction by top researchers.
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Pet frogs are being blamed for a national salmonella outbreak that sickened at least 48 people.
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Men who drink the most coffee are 60 percent less likely to get aggressive prostate cancer than those who don’t drink any, study finds.
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