Body and Health News

Unborn babies can get used to things and remember what they are like, researchers say.
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Doctors test a new stomach-shrinking surgery that goes through the mouth to avoid any incisions or scars.
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A fully licensed swine flu vaccine might not be available until the end of the year, a top official at the World Health Organization says.
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Walking or biking to work, even part way, is linked with fitness, but very few Americans do it, a study finds.
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Slips in tubs and showers send about 120 children a day to the emergency room, many with injuries to their faces.
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Women don’t have to be bad girls to be good partners and don’t need to give up on sex because they’re married, a counselor says.
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Lawmakers from both parties are telling the White House they will go on vacation next month and leave behind — and incomplete — President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
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Japan lifted a ban on organ donations from children, reversing a restriction that created such a dearth of small organs in the country that young patients were forced to seek transplants abroad.
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A medical error claimed the life of a baby born prematurely to a woman who was the first person in Spain to die of swine flu, a hospital official said Monday.
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The way swine flu multiplies in the respiratory system is more severe than ordinary winter flu, a new study in animals finds.
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