Body and Health News

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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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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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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World health officials worry that a deadly swine flu virus in Mexico could unleash a global flu epidemic.
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People in parts of Connecticut have to boil water after micro-organisms were found in water that had been treated.
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