Body and Health News

Lawmakers in six states are debating whether to cut or reduce the state funding that helps seniors and disabled people buy their drugs.
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Fewer smokers, earlier detection of cancer and better treatments mean that cancer rate is falling.
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A new study by the Water Quality and Health Council found that nearly one in five adults admits to urinating in a swimming pool instead of using the toilet.
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Though the swine flu outbreak fell short of a full-blown international crisis, the incident shows how underprepared the nation’s hospitals are for a real health emergency.
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Walk-in retail clinics can help people without insurance get medical care. But a study says they are hard to find in some areas.
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Children who don’t get a pertussis vaccine are 23 times more likely to get the possibly fatal disease, researchers say.
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After returning from six days on the run from court-ordered chemotherapy, a 13-year-old cancer patient is preparing for cancer treatment.
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The world’s swine flu death toll reached 100 as two more New Yorkers died while infected with a virus that has sickened more than 12,000 people.
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A man has trouble entering the U.S. because a cancer drug caused so much peeling that officials could not read his fingerprints.
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Special stockings commonly given to stroke patients to prevent blood clots don’t work, a new study finds.
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