Body and Health News

The results of a long-term study suggests children on medicine for attention deficit disorder scored higher on academic tests than their unmedicated peers.
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An influential doctors group is backing off its call for annual tests after age 50 to screen for prostate cancer.
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The White House brushes off questions about whether a lack of top health officials was making more difficult President Barack Obama’s response to a swine flu outbreak.
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President Barack Obama said Monday that the threat of spreading swine flu infections is a cause for concern but “not a cause for alarm” as the United States undertook close border monitoring to contain it.
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If you don’t even have time to fire up the stove, you can still get a great bowl of macaroni and cheese.
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Makers of the two main antiviral flu treatments say the swine flu virus seems to respond to their medicines.
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The number of deaths that could be linked to the swine flu outbreak in Mexico is rising.
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The Army has approved new guidance to military commanders in an effort to stem the rising toll of soldier suicides.
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On the eve of World Malaria Day, the head of UNICEF says there is enough money available to provide bed nets treated with long-lasting insecticide to everyone in Africa at risk of malaria by 2010.
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Scientists grow blood vessels for kidney patients from their own cells, making it easier and safer for them to use dialysis machines, a new study says.
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