Body and Health News

Mexico — the epicenter of last year’s swine flu outbreak — has received less than half of the 30 million vaccine doses it ordered last year, the country’s health secretary said Tuesday.
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Reports of high cadmium content in children’s jewelry imported from China have prompted a senior U.S. senator to press for legislation that would ban the toxic heavy metal as a hazardous substance from those products and toys.
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Raise a glass of diet soda, the nation’s obesity rate seems to have leveled off. But more than two-thirds of adults and almost a third of children are overweight, and there are no signs of improvement.
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First there was too little swine flu vaccine. Now could there be way too much?
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An author says that going 30 days without sex will help some people fix their relationships.
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For a pizza joint, it’s a bold move to tell customers your crust tasted like cardboard and your sauce was like ketchup.
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A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues than youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era.
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Do your healthy habits go out the window the minute you get on an airplane or take a road trip? Use these tips to fight back.
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Swine flu infections continue to drop and only one state — Alabama — was reporting widespread cases last week.
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A California appeals court ruled in favor of octuplets mother Nadya Suleman Friday, denying a call for an independent guardian to monitor her children’s finances.
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