Body and Health News

To pass a major overhaul of the health care system, people from both parties have to get on board, lawmakers say.
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Medicare’s prescription drug plan has largely met its main goal of making lifesaving medicines more affordable for seniors, a report finds.
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A biotech company begins a trial that will implant cells from newborn pigs into human volunteers as an experimental treatment for their diabetes.
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Pleasant fragrances apparently can do more than ease your mind. They also help calm your body.
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Slow down, Senate Democrats told President Barack Obama on Thursday, dashing hopes of rushing his sweeping health care overhaul to a summertime vote and adding to the troubles the plan could face as the year wears on. “That’s OK,” the president replied gamely. “Just keep working.”
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The U.S. may have as many as 160 million doses of swine flu vaccine available sometime in October, even though manufacturers worldwide are having serious trouble brewing shots, government health officials said Thursday.
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President Barack Obama is echoing John F. Kennedy’s mission to the moon in his own mission of health care reform.
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Dangerously obese people who need surgery to help them lose weight have a new ally — surgical robots.
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The global swine flu epidemic is still in its early stages, even though reports of over 100,000 infections in England alone last week are plausible, the World Health Organization’s flu chief said Friday,
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China announces the first successful birth of a panda cub from artificial insemination with frozen sperm.
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