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» 2007Dec 29, 2007
President George W. Bush has signed legislation that extends a popular children's health insurance program after twice vetoing attempts to expand it.
Dec 29, 2007
Amid growing concern over drug-resistant superbugs and nonhealing wounds that endanger diabetes patients, nature's original antibiotic - honey - is making a comeback.
Dec 28, 2007
State health officials warned consumers not to drink milk produced by a Massachusetts dairy, saying it was the likely source of a bacterial illness that killed two men and sickened two others.
Dec 28, 2007
A study of insured and uninsured Americans showed that those without health insurance get sicker as they age until they turn 65 and qualify for Medicare. But they're not likely to become as healthy as someone who had …
Dec 28, 2007
Growing up on a farm greatly reduces asthma risk -- but farm women who use pesticides are more likely than nonusers to have allergic asthma.
Dec 27, 2007
Employers can reduce their health insurance expenses for retired workers once they turn 65 and qualify for Medicare, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has affirmed.
Dec 27, 2007
Working with mice, researchers have found a molecule that prevents -- and even reverses -- scar-tissue formation in damaged livers.
Dec 27, 2007
An "antisense" compound may partially correct the genetic defect that causes deadly Duchenne's muscular dystrophy.
Dec 26, 2007
Is Pfizer"s stop-smoking drug Chantix a miracle drug, or a dangerous pill that puts people at risk of suicidal thoughts? The Food and Drug Administration is investigating cases of certain troubled Chantix-takers …
Dec 26, 2007
When they reach menopause, lean women -- those with a BMI score of less than 23 -- have a fourfold higher risk of asthma.