Body and Health News

The government is lifting a 70-year-old ban on letting pilots fly while on antidepressants, citing improvements in the drugs and an unforeseen side effect of the restriction: Depressed pilots kept flying but just kept their conditions secret.
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The Obama administration took a step Friday toward showing voters concrete benefits from the new health care law.
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When hospitals use instructions on how to treat common situations, fewer patients die, a study finds.
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Four members of an assisted suicide group pleaded not guilty Thursday in north Georgia on charges they helped a man with cancer kill himself.
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Jennifer Renz was pregnant with twins. But when the Ohio mother went into premature labor, only one baby was born. A full week later, she delivered its twin.
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New England leads the nation in swine flu vaccinations, while the South has the lowest rates, U.S. health officials said Thursday in the first state-by-state report on turnout.
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First Lady Michelle Obama is taking her campaign against childhood obesity to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
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What you eat in the morning could tell your body which nutrients to burn through the day.
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So a scientist walks into a shopping mall to watch people laugh.
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Seniors aren’t celebrating President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
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