Body and Health News

No fish can escape mercury pollution, according to a federal study of mercury contamination.
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Proving one’s gender isn’t always easy.
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Four years after the government severely restricted its use, the lung cancer drug Iressa may be poised to make a comeback: A study concludes it can slow the deadly disease better than standard chemotherapy in certain patients.
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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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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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