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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 new company claims its computers can figure out your allergy triggers, then cure them with a laser. Does it work?
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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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Heart patients in the Philippines are given heart implants that were taken from dead patients in the U.S.
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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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Health officials said Friday that 76 U.S. children have died of swine flu, including 19 new reports in the past week — more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous for the young.
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Sixty years is how long Democrats say they’ve been pushing for legislation that provides health care access for all Americans. They’ll have to wait another three if President Barack Obama gets a bill to sign this year.
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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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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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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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