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Child Obesity in US Higher Than Ever

16 hours 39 minutes ago |AOL News

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(Feb. 9) -- It's easy to see why Michelle Obama has launched a campaign to prevent America's children from putting on too much weight. Just look around the nation's schools and malls. Or, more to poi ...

Boomers' Drug Use Could Create Big Challenge

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(Feb. 9) -- Forget the obvious scourges of growing old: cancer, osteoporosis, dementia. The unexpected health threat to millions of aging Americans might actually be their own substance abuse. As bab ...

New Tobacco Danger: 'Third-Hand Smoke'

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(Feb. 8) -- Here's yet another reason to book a nonsmoking hotel room. Scientists have long known that the residue from cigarette smoke clings to surfaces for weeks and even months. Now there is new ...

Sugar Fuels Tumor Growth, Says Major New Study

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(Feb. 8) -- Sugary soft drinks drastically increase the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a long-term study of 60,000 people in Singapore. A research team at the University of Minnes ...

Obama Plans Bipartisan Summit on Health Care

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In an interview before Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday, President Obama said he plans to convene a televised bipartisan summit to decide on a way forward for health care reform, the New York Times reports. ...

Probe Finds Credibility Issues With 9/11 Lawsuits

2 days 12 hours ago |AP

NEW YORK (Feb. 7) -- As the first cases in a massive battle over illnesses linked to 9/11 near trial, an Associated Press investigation has found that several of the initial 30 suits contain inconsis ...

Brain Fitness the Latest Fad to Prevent Memory Loss?

2 days 15 hours ago |AOL News

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(Feb. 7) -- A week before the world economic summit got under way in Davos, Switzerland, last month, a self-proclaimed "global summit" of a very different sort was winding down. Its 250 or so partici ...

Is the US Swine Flu Epidemic Over?

3 days 20 hours ago |AP

ATLANTA (Feb. 6) -- If the U.S. swine flu epidemic isn't over, it certainly looks as if it's on its last legs. While federal health officials are not ready to declare the threat has passed and the ou ...

Britain's Health Still Suffers From Anti-Vaccine Panic

4 days 16 hours ago |AOL News

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LONDON (Feb. 5) -- Twelve years ago, the prestigious medical journal The Lancet published a study by Andrew Wakefield, a gastroenterologist then at London's Royal Free Hospital, which linked the meas ...

Principals: Recess Key to Academic Success

5 days 20 hours ago |AOL News

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(Feb. 4) -- In schools across the country, daily recess has been shortened or eliminated altogether as districts strive to improve standardized test scores. According to a new Gallup survey of Americ ...

LA Won't Force Condom Use in Porn Films

6 days 11 hours ago |AOL News

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(Feb. 3) -- Health officials will not force actors to use condoms when making pornographic films, despite the urging of activist groups hoping to stop the spread of AIDS among porn industry workers. ...

Court Rules Sex-Change Surgery Is Tax-Deductible

6 days 17 hours ago |AOL News

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(Feb. 3) -- Along with their home office expenses and one-half of the cost of their business meals, American taxpayers can take a tax deduction for their sex-change operations. On Tuesday, the U.S. T ...