Body and Health News

President Barack Obama will meet with Senate Democrats at the White House Tuesday to press for action at a make-or-break moment for his health care overhaul.
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The end game at hand, Senate Democrats appeared ready to jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from sweeping health care legislation Monday.
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Thirteen desperately ill people got needed kidneys in a marathon six days of surgery in a record-setting kidney swap.
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President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul — now looking like a real possibility — should give uninsured Americans options they’ve never had before. But it won’t be a free ride.
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Even people who think they know what medicines were used when they were in the hospital have only a vague idea, a study finds.
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Is Mozart good for babies?
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Swine flu has sickened about 50 million Americans, and killed about 10,000, according to new estimates released by federal health officials on Thursday.
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New results from a landmark women’s health study raise the exciting possibility that bone-building drugs such as Fosamax and Actonel may help prevent breast cancer.
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Patient advocates say a loophole in the Senate health care bill that would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care is unacceptable.
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A crucial part of the nation’s rapid-reponse plan — the ability to trace food through the supply chain during an illness outbreak or bioterrorism attack — is seriously flawed, an independent watchdog agency has found.
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