Body and Health News

Keeping track of your body’s statistics can help keep you healthy. But you shouldn’t follow the numbers every day.
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The nation’s medical costs will keep spiraling upward even faster than they are now under Democratic legislation pending in the House, a report from government economic experts concludes.
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The FDA says that some laser surgery centers don’t do enough to keep track of patients’ problems.
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People who hang on at work until they get close to retirement often start to see their stress decline.
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Safety investigators have sent government agencies a wake-up call about sleep apnea, a disorder that’s showing up in a wide range of transportation accidents.
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Most hospitalized heart failure patients are sent home without widely recommended inexpensive pills, a study suggests.
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A top-ranking official of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says production of a vaccine for swine flu virus is behind schedule and people should take precautionary steps to prevent its spread.
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Alzheimer’s disease researchers find that a certain kind of diet could lead to smaller brains. But they’re not sure what it means for disease.
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A record 106 million infants were vaccinated last year against diseases, but nearly 1 in 5 babies still aren’t fully protected, a report says.
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A sperm donor passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his 24 children, a medical journal report shows.
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