Body and Health News

World health officials worry that a deadly swine flu virus in Mexico could unleash a global flu epidemic.
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People in parts of Connecticut have to boil water after micro-organisms were found in water that had been treated.
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A German doctor said Friday that surgeons have successfully removed a 40-pound (18 kilogram) malignant bone tumor from a Saudi Arabian woman.
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A dozen students complained of feeling sick after drinking bottled water from a junior high school vending machine, but the FBI said Friday that no sign of tampering was found and initial tests detected no contamination.
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Twins — a boy and girl — are delivered right out on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
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Thousands of veterans were at first shocked to learn they should get blood tests for HIV and hepatitis because three hospitals might have treated them with unsterile equipment. Now, just a couple of months after the Department of Veterans Affairs issued the dire warnings, veterans are growing frustrated by the lack of information from the tightlipped federal agency.
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Makers of the two main antiviral flu treatments say the swine flu virus seems to respond to their medicines.
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Deputies said a woman in South Florida has faked a miscarriage. The Broward county Sheriff’s Office responded an emergency call of a possible miscarriage just before 8 a.m. Tuesday at an Oakland Park apartment. Upon arrival, they learned a woman staged the incident using what authorities described only as “animal tissue.”
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A mother whose 8-year-old daughter died suddenly from undiagnosed juvenile diabetes urges parents to have their children tested and to watch out for warning signs.
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Doctors in England say that even as they find more breast cancer in women, fewer die from the disease.
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