Body and Health News

Old people get sick more than young people, and in most states that adds up to them paying a lot more for their health insurance premiums.
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Active duty forces deploying to war zones and other critical areas will be among the first to get the H1N1 vaccine.
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Active duty forces deploying to war zones and other critical areas will be among the first to get the H1N1 vaccine.
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Women who make poor choices in footwear early in life face more pain later, a study finds.
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A government program that brings extra scrutiny to poorly performing nursing homes leaves out hundreds of troubled facilities, investigators report.
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The drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and other toxins.
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Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that’s killed dozens of dogs and sickened many people.
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More than 3,000 people a day have a heart attack. If you’re one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries?
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Unknown allergies and accidental overdoses leave over half a million kids with bad side effects each year.
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Only about one in seven pregnant women gets a flu shot each winter because of the obstacles they face.
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