Body and Health News

A group that wants to improve health care in all states takes a look at which are doing the best and which have the most problems to fix.
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The Senate’s top Democrat on Thursday accused Republicans of a strategy of “distortion, distractions and deception” on health care as he announced a pivotal committee will vote next week on a comprehensive bill. Republicans said the legislation still costs too much and expands the reach of government.
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A new device could test estrogen, a key component of breast cancer, without a invasive biopsy.
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Butter now carries a reputation as a dietary evil. If you want to go a healthier route, which spread comes closest to the original?
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U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years.
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Heart patients in the Philippines are given heart implants that were taken from dead patients in the U.S.
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One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests. That’s a little higher than with ordinary seasonal flu, several experts said.
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A new company claims its computers can figure out your allergy triggers, then cure them with a laser. Does it work?
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A hospital reviews its policy on service animals after forcing out a dog that alerts a boys parents when he is about to have a seizure.
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A group that wants to improve health care in all states takes a look at which are doing the best and which have the most problems to fix.
By fox5vegas.com