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Health News
| The Associated Press - 28 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide contraceptive coverage for their employees as an "unambiguous attack on ... |
| msnbc.com - 16 minutes ago In Texas, women must get a sonogram at least 24 hours before they can get an abortion. By James Eng, msnbc.com Fewer abortions? Better-informed patients? |
| ABC News - 28 minutes ago The ancient Chinese exercise of tai chi improved balance and lowered the risk of falls in a study of people with Parkinson's disease. |
| USA TODAY - 7 minutes ago NEW YORK - People learned better when a key part of their brains got mild zaps of electricity, a finding that may someday help Alzheimer's patients keep more of their memories. |
| By Helen Briggs Health editor, BBC News website Three US citizens who lost their sight in childhood have reported a dramatic improvement in vision after having gene therapy in both eyes. |
| Reuters - 44 minutes ago By Anna Yukhananov | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An advisory panel on Wednesday recommended that US health regulators reject the use of Amgen Inc's drug Xgeva to delay the spread of prostate cancer to the bone, dimming the chance of a wider use for one of ... |
| Medical News Today - 3 hours ago By reverse engineering human skin cells to become induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and then coaxing them to become neural dopamine cells, scientists in the US have developed a way to study a genetic cause of Parkinson's disease in lab-made ... |
| USA TODAY - 38 minutes ago By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY Years of warnings about the dangers of artery-clogging trans fats that Americans get in their foods seem to be paying off: The amount of trans fats in the blood of white adults in the USA dropped a "dramatic" 58% from 2000 ... |
| Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago These seem to be good times for head lice and the folks who fight them -- where I live, at least. Just last week, a friend's daughter had to miss a day of school when lice and nits arrived. |
| Children who cry easily and show other signs of depression are more likely to be bullied, but researchers suggest the depression may not necessarily be caused by bullying. |
| Wall Street Journal - 47 minutes ago AP INDIANAPOLIS - A person diagnosed with measles may have exposed others at Indianapolis' Super Bowl Village to the disease, according to Indiana health officials, who say they're not yet concerned about a widespread outbreak. |
| Medical News Today - 2 hours ago Two recent studies published in The Lancet indicate that cleansing of the umbilical cord during childbirth could substantially reduce the risk of infection and rate of mortality in babies in developing countries. |
| Boston.com - 20 minutes ago By Lauran Neergaard AP Medical Writer / February 8, 2012 WASHINGTON—Trust your doctor? A survey finds that some doctors aren't always completely honest with their patients. |
| KXLY Spokane - 5 hours ago By Emanuella GrinbergCNN Nearly 40 percent of Georgia's children are overweight or obese -- the second-highest rate in the nation -- yet 50 percent of Georgians don't consider child obesity a problem. |
| USA TODAY - 41 minutes ago By Kim Painter, Special for USA TODAY William Broad, a New York Times science writer, has a lot of nice things to say about yoga. There's good reason, he says, that this mix of stretching, bending and deep breathing, with roots in ancient Indian ... |
| Los Angeles Times - 20 hours ago By Stuart Pfeifer, Los Angeles Times Two clinics tied to 1-800-GET-THIN have temporarily halted Lap-Band weight-loss surgeries after the device's maker said it would no longer sell to companies affiliated with the massive advertising campaign. |
| (CBS) Soda drinkers can't seem to catch a break these days. A new study suggests drinking soda might raise the risk for respiratory diseases like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). |
| PORT EVERGLADES, Fla., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A cruise ship that has been through one outbreak of a gastrointestinal virus was headed back to Florida on Wednesday after a second outbreak, its owner said. |
| OzarksFirst.com - 37 minutes ago The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 90-percent of people over age two take in too much sodium. The salty problem is not potato chips or french fries. |
| Wall Street Journal - 2 hours ago AP NEW YORK - Lawmakers are concerned that new public assistance policies could lead to increased homelessness and risky behavior among vulnerable New Yorkers sickened with HIV and AIDS. |
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