Body and Health News

Studies of the new swine flu vaccine show children 10 and older will need just one shot for protection — but younger kids almost certainly will need two.
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U.S. health officials want to have 251 million doses of vaccine for the so-called swine flu.
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The key to fighting some cancers is keeping an eye — and a hand — on your body, doctors say.
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After analyzing dozens of studies, scientists predict 35.6 million cases of dementia worldwide by 2010.
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People with a susceptibility to colon cancer could cut their chances of developing the disease by taking a daily dose of aspirin, researchers say.
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President Barack Obama says requiring people to get health insurance and fining them if they don’t would not amount to a backhanded tax increase.
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Doctors remove a 1-inch piece of plastic that was lodged in the lung of a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits.
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Most people don’t question their health care costs, but some doctors are willing to make deals.
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Seniors who for years have made flu shots a fall ritual are being sent to the end of the line for the swine flu vaccine. And the reason — their age group seems to have a bit of immunity — appears to have warded off most potential grumbling.
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Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California’s rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state’s major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people.
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