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Lowdown on OTC Weight-Loss Drug |
| The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first nonprescription drug for weight loss. Alli (pronounced AL-eye) is slated to hit shelves this year, according to its maker, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). That move has been denounced by some who sa |
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Some Cocoa May Improve Brain Blood Flow |
| SAN FRANCISCO -- A nice cup of the right kind of cocoa could hold the promise of promoting brain function as people age.In an increasingly aging world, medical researchers are seeing more cases of dementia and are looking for ways to make brains work |
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An Introvert Stands Up for The Right to Stand Alone |
| Not until my early 50s did I make a startling discovery: Most of my close friends are introverts. As I brought up the subject with one after another, we spoke in low, confessional voices of feeling numb with fatigue following workdays or social outin |
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Surprising Unity on Va. Hospital Visit Bill |
| RICHMOND -- A measure championed by gay men and lesbians that would give hospital patients explicit authority to choose their visitors is quietly coursing through the Virginia General Assembly.The bill, sponsored by Del. David L. Englin (D-Alexandria |
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Pregnant? Say Yes to Seafood |
| Pregnant and nursing women, as well as those who want to conceive, are advised in the United States to avoid certain types of seafood and to limit consumption of other varieties as a way to reduce potential ill effects from mercury and other contamin |
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Sir, Yes, Sir! |
| On a gray November morning, I find myself down on my hands and knees in the middle of a muddy field. Push-ups. The stuff of recruitment films or high school gym-class nightmares. The ground is cold and squishy, and I am convinced that I feel the firs |
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Wrong Pills Shipped to Online Drug Buyers |
| Consumers who thought they were purchasing sleep aids, antidepressants and other drugs over the Internet instead were shipped a powerful antipsychotic, sending some unwitting victims to the emergency room, federal health officials warned yesterday.Th |
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New Push Grows for FDA Regulation of Tobacco |
| After years of falling short, advocates of requiring the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco are again waging that fight in Congress -- and this time, they say, the odds are in their favor. Really.A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduc |
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250,000 Condoms Deployed For HIV Awareness, Prevention |
| It comes in a purple and mustard-yellow package, with a message aimed squarely at anyone having sex in the nation\'s capital, and today the city will dispense 250,000 of these DC-branded condoms during a massive giveaway.In a single morning, the kick |
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Fish in Mother's Diet Benefits Child, Study Finds |
| A large study has found that children of women who ate little fish during pregnancy had lower IQs and more behavioral and social problems than youngsters whose mothers ate plenty of seafood, a finding that challenges the U.S. government\'s standard a |
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Hey, You're Breaking Up on Me! |
| Jason Sherman, 25, admits he sometimes finds it hard to say what he means: He once broke up with a girlfriend by text messaging her on his cellphone, and he says he has used e-mail to deliver similar news to other women.\"I\'m one of those people tha |
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