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A woman died over the weekend of swine flu, becoming the city’s second victim and the nation’s 11th.
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Exercise is good for you, but if you want to lose weight you just have to take in fewer calories, researchers say.
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The World Health Organization says it will change the rules for declaring a swine flu pandemic, a virus the agency’s chief calls “sneaky” because of its ability to spread quickly from person to person and potentially mutate into a deadlier form.
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Minnesota authorities said Friday they were turning to an international law enforcement agency for help finding a woman and her 13-year-old son on the run from court-ordered cancer treatment for the boy.
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A 66-year-old woman with terminal cancer has become the first person to die under Washington state’s new assisted suicide law, an advocacy group said Friday.
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The government commits big money to fight a novel strain of influenza that caused fear of a pandemic.
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A chemical in some plastic containers can quickly get into the liquid it holds and then into your body, a study finds.
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Patients with diabetes sometimes lose a limb to complications. But medicine originally meant to lower cholesterol shows promise.
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Health experts say that emergency rooms and family practice offices may be the among the best places to catch a bug.
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New test results show that people in their 60s and older have signs of greater immunity to the new swine flu virus.
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