Body and Health News

It is unacceptable that 8.8 million children die every year before their fifth birthday — 40 percent of them in India, Nigeria and Congo, the U.N. children’s agency said Thursday.
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Fighting the swine flu may have gotten more manageable.
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Japan will have 40,399 people aged 100 or older this month, surpassing the previous record of 36,276 last year, the Health and Welfare Ministry said in an annual report marking a Sept. 21 national holiday honoring the elderly.
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Influenza is circulating unusually early this year with cases in all 50 states — nearly all the swine flu variety, government health officials say.
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Taxing cosmetic procedures like tummy tucks, liposuction and Botox injections could help finance health care reform, and that pushes some people to get surgery now.
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A hospital in northwestern North Dakota is investigating how the mother of a newborn went home with the wrong baby.
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President Barack Obama assailed critics of his health care initiative Saturday, seeking to grab the megaphone from his opponents and boost momentum in his drive for congressional passage of his chief domestic priority.
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Republicans in more than a dozen states opposed to President Barack Obama’s push for health care overhaul have mounted state-driven efforts to block federal intervention in health care, with some early success.
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The fierce national debate over health care is entering a new phase, with advocates on all sides focused on a few legislative bottlenecks that will determine the ultimate overhaul of the $2.5 trillion medical care system.
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Some women and men rue the day they were born with chunky thighs, but a new study says it may be a good thing.
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