Body and Health News

New research says the best way to protect society’s most vulnerable from the flu: Vaccinate school-age children and their parents.
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Ever feel that no matter how hard you try, you’re walking in circles? A preliminary study by European scientists says that you are.
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Some once-demonized foods are being spiked with nutrients to give them a healthier look, but are they really better for shoppers?
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Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars’ vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants.
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Government officials are calling on U.S. businesses to help manage swine flu this fall by getting vaccines to vulnerable workers and encouraging employees with symptoms to stay home.
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The judgment is harsh in a new poll that finds Americans worried about the government taking over health insurance, cutting off treatment to the elderly and giving coverage to illegal immigrants. Harsh, but not based on facts.
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Almost a dozen Arizona hospitals stop using a rapid response flu test, which can detect the influenza virus in less than an hour.
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Rep. Barney Frank lashed out at protester who held a poster depicting President Barack Obama with a Hitler-style mustache during a heated town hall meeting on federal health care reform.
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Gardasil, the shots that help prevent cervical cancer, causes a reasonable number of bad reactions, studies find.
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Using plants to grow vaccines could make them cheaper and get them to patients more quickly, a researcher says.
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