Body and Health News

Fighting breast cancer has become a family’s mission after four of five sisters were diagnosed with the disease.
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A pair of new studies indicate that about 1 in 100 children have autism disorders.
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Swine flu vaccinations began Monday with squirts up the noses of health care workers in Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee — it just tickled, shrugged one — as the government opened a massive effort to immunize over half the nation in a few months.
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A new government report finds that fewer U.S. high schools and middle schools are selling candy and salty snacks to students.
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A woman in a skimpy white bikini sashays next to a swimming pool. Onlookers gawk, men’s tongues roll and music blares in the background.
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The health insurance industry doesn’t want Congress to let you off easy if you decide to ignore a proposed requirement that all Americans must have coverage.
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Eight months in office, Barack Obama has now pushed closer than any other president in generations to creating a basic health care safety net for working Americans. Yet the fate of legislation delivering on his goal is far from certain: Republicans are nearly unified in opposition, Democrats hardly united in support.
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The first vaccinations against swine flu — the squirt-in-the-nose kind — begin early next week in parts of the country.
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Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to have hallucinations and delusions, a study finds.
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Surgeons perform eye surgery on a female gorilla at Miami Metrozoo on Friday.
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