ATLANTA (AP) -- Would you go to a drugstore to get tested for AIDS? Health officials want to... More

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chances are you know your blood pressure. What about your BMI? Body mass index... More

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ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. health officials say the number of young adults with medical coverage grew... More

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CHICAGO (AP) -- An internal medicine doctor from Kentucky is the American Medical Association's... More

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ATLANTA (AP) -- Fewer motorcyclists die in states that require helmets, and the costs to society... More

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut -- enough bacteria, fungi... More

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Women physician-scientists are paid much less than their male counterparts,... More

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CHICAGO (AP) -- A new study says women physician-scientists are paid much less than their male... More

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anyone who's had a hospital stay knows the beeping monitors, the pagers and... More

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Is your doctor a technophobe? Increasingly, the answer may be no. There's a... More

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Even children as young as 7 sometimes cut themselves on purpose, according to a... More

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ATLANTA (AP) -- A mysterious and scattered outbreak of the E. coli bacteria is linked to 14... More

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SURVEY SAYS ...: More than half of high school seniors admitted in a government survey that... More

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ATLANTA (AP) -- Think your teen would never text while driving? More than half of high school... More

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ATLANTA (AP) -- More than half of high school seniors admit they text or email while driving --... More

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Americans should not expect chaos if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects all or part... More

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CHICAGO (AP) -- New research shows a sharp escalation in the weapons race against cancer, with... More

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Doctors have successfully dropped the first "smart bomb" on breast cancer, using... More

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CHICAGO (AP) -- A hormone-blocking pill approved last year for some men with advanced prostate... More

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ATLANTA (AP) -- A new salmonella outbreak that sickened nearly 100 people has been traced to... More

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Many scientists are working on treatments to help people with spinal cord... More

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ATLANTA (AP) -- Those cute mail-order chicks that wind up in children's Easter baskets and... More

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A simple, cheaper exam of just the lower part of the bowel can cut the risk of developing colon... More

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dropping a paper prescription at the drugstore is becoming old-school: More... More

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an... More

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