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Health Tip: Bonding With Your Infant

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It's a key part of baby's development

Exercise Might Keep Menopausal Hot Flashes at Bay

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Fewer benefits seen in women who were overweight, less fit or had more intense symptoms

FDA approves first rapid, take-home HIV test

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans will soon be able to test themselves in the privacy of their own homes for the virus that causes AIDS, now that the Food and Drug Administration has approved the first rapid, over-the-counter HIV test.

Methadone for Pain Relief Leading Cause of Fatal Overdoses: CDC

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Drug is complex, overprescribed, CDC director says

'Superbug' MRSA Making a Retreat in Communities

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Large study also found drop in serious MRSA blood-system infections

Shingles Vaccine Safe for Those With Autoimmune Diseases: Study

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Study allays fears that the shot might raise shingles risk in people with psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis

2 paths forward for uninsured, 1 clouded by ruling

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Really? The Supreme Court's big health care decision means 30 million or more uninsured Americans are soon going to have coverage? It's far from that simple.

Methadone deaths still high but may have peaked

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ATLANTA (AP) — Overdose deaths from powerful painkillers have been surging at an alarming rate in the U.S., but here's a sliver of good news: The number blamed on methadone appears to have peaked.

First Over-the-Counter HIV Test Approved

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Results can be obtained within 40 minutes

Half of Heart Patients Make Mistakes With Their Meds: Study

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Almost 23 percent of errors were deemed serious, researchers report

Another Study Links Diabetes Drug Actos to Bladder Cancer

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Individual risk still remains low, however

Summer Is Peak Time for Teens to Try Drugs, Alcohol: Report

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Experts advise parents to be alert, help kids structure their days

Health Highlights: July 3, 2012

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Meet the Healthcare Tax

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Patient Luis Gutierrez talks with Dr. Javier Hiriart at Camillus Health Concern in Miami, Fla. Camillus is a private, non-profit organization that provides health care to the homeless and poor in Miami-Dade County.

WASHINGTON (AP) — It looks like a tax, smells like a tax, and the Supreme Court says it must be a tax. But politicians in both parties are squirming over how to define the Thing in President Barack Obama's health care law that requires people to pay up if they don't get health insurance.

Health Tip: Clean Your Fruits and Veggies

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To wash away bacteria

Health Tip: Have Your Headaches Evaluated

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If they occur several times per month

Mass. Health Law May Bode Well for Federal Law

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Dr. Hamsakumari Ramasubramaniam examines patient Fabian Vasquez at Camillus Health Concern in Miami, Fla. Camillus is a private, non-profit organization that provides health care to the homeless and poor in Miami-Dade County.

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts has the nation's highest rate of residents with health insurance. Visits to emergency rooms are beginning to ease. More residents are getting cancer screenings and more women are making prenatal doctors' visits.

GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3B for health fraud

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3 billion in fines — the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history — for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs that are taken by millions of people.