Infant car seats can trim babies’ oxygen levels

Infant car safety seats can — and do — save newborns’ lives in traffic accidents. In fact, you can’t leave the hospital without one.
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Your questions about cancer answered

We received hundreds of questions from you for The Clinic live Webcast, hosted by Dr Sanjay Gupta on August 23. Here are the best questions and the all important answers from our panel of cancer experts.
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She’s battling asthma and environmental racism

As the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson wears many hats: environmentalist, upholder of anti-pollution policy and toxic chemical regulator, to name a few.
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Changes for Better Health

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Recently, I decided to give up certain habits in my life to help improve my health. Now that I’ve formed the exercise habit, I wanted to improve other areas of my life as well. Two of the things I’ve given up altogether are coffee and alcohol.
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Obama slams ‘outrageous myths’ about health care

Facing a recent erosion of public support for health-care overhaul, President Obama lashed out at his opponents Saturday for spreading “outrageous myths” on the Internet, television, and at town hall forums.
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To Bee or Not to Bee

In part 2 of our bee podcast, we talk with May Berenbaum, entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and inspiration for the X Files fictional entomologist Bambi Berenbaum, about bees, other insects and how life history analysis can make us rest easy during scary sci-fi invasion movies. Plus, we’ll test your [...]

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Study: Some types of candles may pollute indoor air

A soak in a steamy tub, surrounded by candles sure seems like a great way to unwind. But new research suggests that burning certain kinds of candles may generate indoor air pollutants.
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The Ultimate Guide to Stretching for Fitness

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This is a guest post by Mary Ward
Exercise is undoubtedly important towards a person’s overall health. There’s no limit to the level of information provided out there on how exercise can benefit everything from weight loss to cholesterol levels. So people are starting to get on the train that working out is [...]

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Divided Democrats put Obama in health care bind

As President Obama struggles to regain control of the health care debate, he’s finding himself caught in a game of tug of war with members of his own party.
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WHO official predicts H1N1 ‘explosion’

The world will soon see an “explosion” of swine flu cases as the H1N1 virus spreads rapidly around the world, a top World Health Organization official said Friday.
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