Body and Health News

A dozen students complained of feeling sick after drinking bottled water from a junior high school vending machine, but the FBI said Friday that no sign of tampering was found and initial tests detected no contamination.
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Twins — a boy and girl — are delivered right out on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
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Thousands of veterans were at first shocked to learn they should get blood tests for HIV and hepatitis because three hospitals might have treated them with unsterile equipment. Now, just a couple of months after the Department of Veterans Affairs issued the dire warnings, veterans are growing frustrated by the lack of information from the tightlipped federal agency.
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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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Strokes, heart attack and diabetes are less common in women who provided their own milk to a baby.
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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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An investigation of three disease samples missing from a Fort Detrick lab found that the samples were likely destroyed, according to Army officials.
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Deputies said a woman in South Florida has faked a miscarriage. The Broward county Sheriff’s Office responded an emergency call of a possible miscarriage just before 8 a.m. Tuesday at an Oakland Park apartment. Upon arrival, they learned a woman staged the incident using what authorities described only as “animal tissue.”
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A mother whose 8-year-old daughter died suddenly from undiagnosed juvenile diabetes urges parents to have their children tested and to watch out for warning signs.
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