Body and Health News

Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California’s rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state’s major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people.
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Seniors who for years have made flu shots a fall ritual are being sent to the end of the line for the swine flu vaccine. And the reason — their age group seems to have a bit of immunity — appears to have warded off most potential grumbling.
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Most people don’t question their health care costs, but some doctors are willing to make deals.
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Doctors remove a 1-inch piece of plastic that was lodged in the lung of a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits.
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One in three teenage girls have rolled up their sleeves for a vaccine against cervical cancer, but vaccination rates vary dramatically between states, according to a federal report released Thursday.
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After nine years without sight, a grandmother is finally able to see again.
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Taco Bell isn’t health food, but you can pick items that satisfy without busting a gut.
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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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