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The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from Maine suggests.
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Going to the gym can make your muscles bigger and stronger. But improving your heart may be the most important workout.
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Aeropostale and outlet stores of upscale Saks Fifth Avenue stop selling jewelry with a toxic metal.
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No, maybe he can’t. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation’s health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress.
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If the U.S. swine flu epidemic isn’t over, it certainly looks as if it’s on its last legs.
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The Food and Drug Administration is saying in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products — that the agency compares with candy and says contain a lot of nicotine — could be particularly appealing to kids and young adults.
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Acupuncture lessens the symptoms of depression in pregnant women better than placebo treatments, a study says.
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Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them — findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for such people.
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Federal and state programs will pay slightly more than half the tab for health care purchased in the United States by 2012, says a report by Medicare number crunchers.
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Acupuncture lessens the symptoms of depression in pregnant women better than placebo treatments, a study says.
By fox5vegas.com