Body and Health News

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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A new device could test estrogen, a key component of breast cancer, without a invasive biopsy.
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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 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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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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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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