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Federal health advisers say Gardasil, which is used to prevent cervical cancer in women, should also be approved to stop genital warts in men.
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Hearing noise from a road all day and night could cause hypertension, a study says.
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It is unacceptable that 8.8 million children die every year before their fifth birthday — 40 percent of them in India, Nigeria and Congo, the U.N. children’s agency said Thursday.
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Fighting the swine flu may have gotten more manageable.
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Japan will have 40,399 people aged 100 or older this month, surpassing the previous record of 36,276 last year, the Health and Welfare Ministry said in an annual report marking a Sept. 21 national holiday honoring the elderly.
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Influenza is circulating unusually early this year with cases in all 50 states — nearly all the swine flu variety, government health officials say.
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Taxing cosmetic procedures like tummy tucks, liposuction and Botox injections could help finance health care reform, and that pushes some people to get surgery now.
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A hospital in northwestern North Dakota is investigating how the mother of a newborn went home with the wrong baby.
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President Barack Obama assailed critics of his health care initiative Saturday, seeking to grab the megaphone from his opponents and boost momentum in his drive for congressional passage of his chief domestic priority.
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Many American businesses are unprepared to deal with widespread employee absenteeism in the event of an outbreak of swine flu, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study released Wednesday.
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