Body and Health News

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in February and has since undergone two months of radiation treatment.
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A new immunization could make it so that people don’t get pleasure from taking cocaine.
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Vaccine-like shots to keep cocaine abusers from getting high also helped them fight their addiction, a new study finds.
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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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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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