Body and Health News

A poor hospital may increase your chances of dying by 71 percent over a top-rated hospital.
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A Senate committee moves toward a pivotal vote on a sweeping health care bill that fulfills President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
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A top U.S. health official says the risks from not getting the swine flu vaccine are greater than any potential risks associated with the vaccine.
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This year, more employers may include a new type of plan that can chop premium payments by nearly 20 percent and give consumers a tax break.
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Churches are sanitizing more to help stop the spread of the H1N1 virus.
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New reports on swine flu in Canada and Mexico describe rapidly worsening symptoms in the sickest patients.
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The word “Viagra” became an easy punch line when it was first marketed, but the $2.1 billion market now includes some strong competitors.
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One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests. That’s a little higher than with ordinary seasonal flu, several experts said.
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Heart patients in the Philippines are given heart implants that were taken from dead patients in the U.S.
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U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years.
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