Body and Health News

President Barack Obama says requiring people to get health insurance and fining them if they don’t would not amount to a backhanded tax increase.
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Keep going. You don’t have to fix all of it now. Just don’t let it stall. That’s the essence of the message of Senate Democratic leaders.
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Finding out how much a medical procedure costs can be more difficult and mysterious than buying a new car.
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Speaking as a mother, daughter and first lady — but not as a policy-maker like one of her predecessors — Michelle Obama urged women on Friday to join her husband’s fight to overhaul health care.
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Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. said on Friday that its obesity drug candidate lorcaserin succeeded in a clinical study, but the drug did not appear to be as effective as other treatments competitors have in development.
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Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts say.
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President Barack Obama is sitting down for interviews with five television networks this afternoon, a highly unusual schedule even for a president who regularly uses the media to get his message across.
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A southern Illinois woman dies after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing problem in operating rooms.
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Surviving breast cancer is a victory, but it can come with costs, including weakened thinking skills, former cancer patients say.
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Global production of swine flu vaccines will be “substantially less” than the previous forecast of 94 million doses a week, the WHO says.
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