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Senators grapple over costs of health care bill
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., moves a stack of documents comprising the health care reform bill and its amendments during its markup of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday.
CAPTION
By Charles Dharapak, AP
Initial congressional work on the historic health care overhaul pushed by President Barack Obama is...
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Most Influential Doctors
In patients' hunt for care, doctor database 'a place to start'
List of 6,000 physicians near you who specialize in high cholesterol, hypertension, asthma or diabetes from firm Qforma.
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Search Most Influential Doctors in 4 specialties and 300 metro areas
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Cancer forum
Patients, survivors, loved ones share stories, advice.
Bisphenol A
'Everywhere' chemical: What you need to know.
Your Health
Tips to help you keep your kids' bike helmets on.
Weight-Loss Challenge: Diet on a Dime
Which is right for you?
Easy look through 21 diet plans.
Video: Healthy dinner on $4
Nutritionist Bonnie Taub-Dix's tricks.
How they did it
Hear on Twitter how they're handling temptations.
Blog squad
Four nutrition experts offer advice and recipes.
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Alzheimer's
Dealing with dementia
What you need to know, plus video.
Science of it
Interactive graphic shows the basic workings, history of the disease.
Living with Alzheimer's
Bob and Carol Blackwell blog on the early stages.
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Judge won't seal medical records of boy who refused chemo
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False test results seen in maternal screening
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Study: Health workers didn't take swine flu precautions
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Some common ground emerges in health battle
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Report: Health care costs to rise 9% in 2010
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By Michael Hayman, The Courier-Journal
Deaths of high school athletes prompt heat safety guidelines
By Janice Lloyd, USA TODAY
New pre-season training guidelines will be issued Thursday by the National Athletic Trainers' Association and a task force concerned about...
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33 premature babies feared exposed to swine flu
Thirty-three infants born prematurely at a North Carolina hospital are receiving precautionary swine flu treatment after possibly being...
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More are searching the Web for medical advice
By Erin Thompson, USA TODAY
The number of adults who turn to the Internet for health information has nearly doubled in the past two years, from 31% to 60%, according...
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Testimony: VA medical gear still being mishandled
By Bill Theobald, Gannett Washington Bureau
House lawmakers blasted Veterans Affairs officials on Tuesday after hearing testimony that the agency still wasn't following procedures for...
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Lawmakers grill VA officials over botched colonoscopies
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4 ex-senators prepare $1.2T, bipartisan health overhaul plan
Former Sens. Tom Daschle and George Mitchell (Democrats) and Bob Dole and Howard Baker (Republicans) are joining together Wednesday to...
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Discord grows over Obama's proposed changes
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By Evan Vucci, AP
'FDA has a lot on its plate' as new chief takes over
By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY
Margaret Hamburg, recently confirmed as the second woman to helm the Food and Drug Administration, speaks to USA TODAY about tobacco,...
YOUR QUESTIONS:
What would you ask the FDA chief?
FDA:
Zicam nasal spray can cause loss of smell
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Chemo treatment may remove wrinkles as well
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
Chemo treatment gives patients younger, smoother skin.
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HHS secretary: Public health plan will survive
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Erica Werner, Associated Press
The insurance lobby won't be able to block a public health plan because most Americans realize they would be better off if the industry had...
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Insurers won't succeed, Sebelius says
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Discord grows over public plan
OBAMA:
Strengthens pitch at AMA meeting
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Swine flu shots may go to kids first, Sebelius says
By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press
Schoolchildren could be first in line for swine flu vaccine this fall and schools are being put on notice that they might even be turned...
KIDS:
Swine flu can be scary; what to tell them
VACCINE:
Novartis says it produced 1st batch
INTERACTIVES:
World map, how H1N1 strain emerged
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FDA: Zicam spray for colds can cause loss of smell
Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell,...
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