Body and Health News

Five years after the court fight over allowing Terri Schiavo to die, most Americans still don’t draft the legal documents that spell out how far caregivers should go to keep them alive artificially.
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A former Food and Drug Administration scientist said Tuesday his job was eliminated after he raised concerns about the risks of radiation exposure from high-grade medical scanning.
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Jamie Oliver tried to teach children at an elementary school a new way to eat. They prefer pizza and chicken nuggets.
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Cancer patients who also have diabetes are more likely to die within a month of having tumors removed.
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Will a national requirement for chain restaurants to post calorie counts sound the death knell for bacon cheeseburgers and double chocolate doughnuts?
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A former baseball star and his wife open up about life with a song with Asperger’s syndrome.
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Young adults who buy their own insurance will carry a heavier burden of the medical costs of older Americans.
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Women who were abused as children are more likely to have problems even when they’re happy to be having children, a study says.
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A group of outside experts will scrutinize the World Health Organization’s response to the swine flu outbreak and likely examine whether the global body could have been clearer when it declared a pandemic of what has turned out to be a relatively mild disease, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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Congressional Democrats sent the final piece of landmark health care legislation to President Barack Obama on Friday before heading home to face a skeptical — and sometimes threatening — public.
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