Body and Health News

The French live up to their image as lovers of food and leisure, spending more time at the table and in bed than many other nations.
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Making a perfect biscuit used to be an art passed down in the family. Now, you can buy dough any time. Will it cook up right?
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The tally of confirmed swine flu cases in the United States jumped Sunday to 241 in 34 states, but officials said that’s largely from catching up on a backlog of lab tests rather than a sudden spurt in new infections.
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Egyptian police and armored cars charged into a crowd of a 1,000 irate pig farmers armed with stones and bottles, leaving 12 people injured as residents of a Cairo slum resisted government efforts to slaughter the nation’s pigs to guard against swine flu.
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The swine flu epidemic spread deeper into the United States, Europe and Latin America — and in Canada, back to pigs — even as Mexico’s health chief hinted Sunday it may soon be time to reopen businesses and schools in the nation where the outbreak likely began.
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President Barack Obama is working with Mexico’s president on ways to keep the swine flu from spreading further and says the U.S. will be ready if the flu strain develops into something worse.
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The Spanish Health Ministry says the country now has 20 confirmed cases of swine flu, making Spain the hardest-hit nation in Europe amid the swine flu outbreak.
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A hundred cases of swine flu in the U.S.? Health officials say there are likely more. Just how many is not important, they say.
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A pediatrician who thought she was battling allergies kept treating patients before getting a diagnosis of flu.
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Concerns about a possible pandemic have sent people streaming into crowded emergency rooms and walk-in clinics — not with the so-called swine flu, but the swine flu jitters.
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