Body and Health News

A program gives girls $1 a day toward a college education — if they don’t get pregnant.
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Puzzling new research suggests women have a harder time than men looking at babies with facial birth defects.
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The famous Mediterranean diet may increase longevity, but not all the foods in the program really make a difference, a study says.
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Lamenting his first teenage cigarette, President Barack Obama ruefully admitted on Monday that he’s spent his adult life fighting the habit. Then he signed the nation’s toughest anti-smoking law, aiming to keep thousands of other teens from getting hooked.
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Researchers say women shouldn’t put too much pressure on themselves to take off weight right after a baby is born.
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People who drink milk at breakfast tend to take in fewer calories than those who drink juice, a study finds.
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A new Internet data map offers a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at HIV cases in the U.S. and finds the infection rates tend to be highest in the South.
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Scientists are testing whether a prenatal nutrient might offer babies protection from alcohol consumed by mothers-to-be.
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday squared off with the insurance lobby over industry charges that a government health plan he backs would dismantle the employer coverage Americans have relied on for a half-century and overtake the system.
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Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has an “excellent prognosis” after receiving a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital, a doctor confirmed Tuesday.
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