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U.S. warns of fatal side effect with imaging drugs

The FDA is warning doctors that a class of injectable drugs used in MRI medical imaging scans can cause a rare and sometimes fatal condition in patients with kidney disease.

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Poll: Most still confused about health care

Most U.S. adults are still not sure when they will see certain changes from major healthcare reforms passed earlier this year, according to a new survey

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How to take a watermelon smash to the face

A giant slingshot. A watermelon. And a woman's face.

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Video: Vitamin B could help prevent Alzheimer's

British researchers found that the pills halved the rate at which the brains of elderly people shrunk in size - one of the first symptoms of dementia.

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Male menopause: Reality or myth?

For women of a certain age, menopause is a fact of life. But this middle-age change no longer looks so feminine.

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Appeals court puts hold on stem cell funding ban

U.S. appeals court puts on hold Judge's ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.

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A whole different Playboy channel — for the blind

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Tween boys tackle obesity: One family's story

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B vitamins found to slow progression of dementia

Daily tablets of large doses of B vitamins can halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with memory problems and may slow their progression toward dementia, data from a British trial showed on Wednesday,

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Too little sleep raises obesity risk in children

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Children aged four and under who get less than 10 hours of sleep a night are nearly twice as likely to be overweight or obese five years later, according to a U.S. study.

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