Health and Fitness
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Panel: Use new meningitis vaccines only for outbreaksFeb 25, 2015 10:00 pm - ATLANTA (AP) - A federal panel is recommending that two new meningitis vaccines only be used during outbreaks and not be given routinely to teens and college students. T...
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Study: Nasty stomach bug much more common than thought in USFeb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - ATLANTA (AP) - A nasty intestinal bug sickens nearly twice as many Americans each year as was previously thought, according to the largest U.S. study to look at the prob...
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Call for study to settle if anesthesia poses risk to babiesFeb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - Studies of baby animals have long suggested that going under anesthesia can have some harmful effects on a developing brain. Now some scientists want t...
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UK 1st country to allow creation of embryos from 3 peopleFeb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - LONDON (AP) - Britain has become the first country in the world to allow the creation of human embryos from the DNA of three people, a technique intended to help mothers...
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3 men 1st to get reconstructed bionic hands after amputationFeb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - LONDON (AP) - Three Austrians have replaced injured hands with bionic ones that they can control using nerves and muscles transplanted into their arms from their legs. T...
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Andie MacDowell espouses taking care of yourselfFeb 24, 2015 5:00 am - Seemingly calm and reserved, “Cedar Cove” actress Andie MacDowell is really a ball of energy. She's been that way since growing up as a young girl in South Carolina. “I ...
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Healthy Lombard campaign continues to build momentumFeb 23, 2015 10:00 pm - Healthy Lombard campaign continues to build momentum
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Asia may have seeded European plague outbreaks, study saysFeb 23, 2015 10:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists say they may have solved a centuries-old whodunit: Why did Europe experience outbreaks of bubonic plague over hundreds of years, starting with...
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UK 1st country to allow creation of embryos from 3 peopleFeb 23, 2015 10:00 pm - LONDON (AP) - Britain has become the first country in the world to allow the creation of human embryos from the DNA of three people, a technique intended to help mothers...
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IUDs, hormone implants growing more popular among US womenFeb 23, 2015 10:00 pm - CHICAGO (AP) - Long-acting but reversible methods of birth control are becoming increasingly popular among U.S. women, with IUDs redesigned after safety scares and the d...