Body and Health News

A small number of law enforcement officers who helped with the Sept. 11 rescue and cleanup have an immune system cancer.
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President Barack Obama predicts Congress will pass his health care overhaul this fall as more “sensible and reasoned arguments” prevail.
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Fifty-one U.S. troops in Iraq come down with swine flu, and 81 others may have it as well.
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Using tiny needles and Eastern medicine to treat pain could make Western drugs work better, a researcher says.
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The Happy Meal — a burger, fries and a drink — started the kids’ meal craze. Options are more sophisticated now.
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A study finds that people with high debt are more likely to be obese.
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At one point during her quarter-century as an alcoholic, Carol Colleran would down at least 10 beers each weeknight, more on weekends. Then she would show up the next morning at her job in hospital management, feeling fuzzy and lousy.
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There aren’t just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too.
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A big money campaign for health care reform by the nation’s drugmakers could dwarf all attempts to derail President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
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Using better-than-expected jobs numbers to press his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama argued Saturday that overhauling the nation’s costly health care system is essential to the country’s economic well-being.
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