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Flu Season Was One of Mildest on Record, CDC Confirms

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Fewer deaths, hospitalizations this year than in the past, agency says

Many Suffer Leg, Lung Clots While Hospitalized: CDC

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Risk of potentially deadly blockages rises with age; prevention efforts urged

More suspected cases in UK Legionnaires' outbreak

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LONDON (AP) — Health officials on Thursday reported 61 confirmed and suspected cases of Legionnaires' disease in Scotland, an outbreak that has left one man dead.

CDC: Older Teens Often Text Behind the Wheel

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A close-up of a driver sending a text message while driving.

ATLANTA (AP) — More than half of high school seniors admit they text or email while driving — the first federal statistics on how common the dangerous habit is in teens.

Depressed Teens Who Respond to Treatment Less Likely to Abuse Drugs

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Improvement within 12 weeks is a positive sign, study finds

Ritual in Some Jewish Circumcisions Raises Risk of Herpes Infection: Report

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CDC details 11 cases since 2000; NYC health officials advise against oral-genital suction practice

Belly 'Membrane' May Regulate Immune System, Mouse Study Finds

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Cells from fatty abdominal lining show promise for new treatments for autoimmune problems

Health Highlights: June 7, 2012

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Skin Cells Turned Into Brain Cells

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Brain cells of a laboratory mouse are shown glowing with multicolor fluorescent proteins.

Transformed cells could lead to better ways of testing drugs for Alzheimer's, researchers say

Many Kids on Medicaid Don't See Dentist

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Green toothbrush and floss to represent dental hygiene

Some improvement found over 5-year period but expert says program cuts could hurt

Health Tip: Help Prevent Heart Disease

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Control blood pressure and cholesterol

Health Tip: Easing Heel Pain

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Make sure shoes fit properly

Exercise Controls Weight in White Girls Better Than in Black Girls: Study

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Researchers suggest new weight-loss strategies needed for these teens

Child CT Scans Might Up Risk of Brain Cancer, Leukemia

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Michael Gomez, a nuclear medicine technologist, talks to a patient before a positron emission tomography cat scan, or PET-CT, at River Radiology in Kingston, N.Y.

Although the risk is small, radiation doses should be kept low, experts say

Child CT scans could raise cancer risk slightly

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LONDON (AP) — Children who get several CT scans have a slightly higher chance of brain cancer and leukemia in later life, though the risk is still small and probably outweighed by the need to get the test, researchers reported.

Tobacco tax vote could echo outside California

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Big Tobacco's branding a proposed California cigarette tax as a government boondoggle sent a message that could echo in other states.

In China, 1 in 10 TB cases are drug-resistant

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BEIJING (AP) — One in 10 cases of tuberculosis in China cannot be treated by the most commonly-used drugs, driven by a lack of testing and misuse of medicine, according to a national survey that showed for the first time the size of the drug-resistant epidemic.