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Health care

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• Texas man gets first full face transplant in US
• FDA expands approval of shingles vaccine
• Weight loss surgery gets rid of migraines, too
• Dyslexic governor brings learning disability to limelight
• Doctors need to research health needs of gays
• Arizona considering $50 tax for smokers, obese
• Want pain pills? Be prepared to sign the dotted line
• Medicaid to reward recipients for healthy habits
• Feds push to improve hospital safety
• Antidepressants could help heal brain injuries
• Major measles outbreak in Europe, WHO reports
• Ivory Coast standoff keeping ill from medical help
• Car accident victim gets full-face transplant
• 600,000 young adults join parents' health plans
• Soap isn't always as clean as it seems, study says
• Sex, coffee increases risk of brain aneurysm rupture
• Millions in U.S. visit ERs each year for headaches
• Obama plan for health care quality dealt a setback
• Nearly 60 percent of Americans get medical info online
• Rural residents go under knife more than city dwellers
• House calls return — and with them, some concerns
• Giffords communicates after skull surgery
• Teen angst can derail life-saving transplants
• Suicide kits rekindle debate on assisted suicide
• Life-saving drug shortages leave hospitals scrambling
• Suleman's fertility doc has license revoked
• 'Werewolf' gene may explain excess hair disorder
• Emergency care — but not at a hospital
• Life expectancy shrank in hundreds of US counties
• High school kids don't exercise enough, CDC reports
• Millions of middle-class people could get Medicaid
• Generic drug makers not liable for failing to list side effects
• Nurse's suicide highlights twin tragedies of medical errors
• Paralyzed mom should have permanent visitation rights

• Transgender people sue to have birth records changed
• FDA : Stop taking Soladek vitamin solution
• Common sense and hindsight blind us to the future
• Papers: Guatemalans welcomed US syphilis doctor
• Low levels of radiation found in U.S. milk
• Next big Giffords decision: When can she go home?
• Synthetic drugs sent thousands to ER
• Bug off! What bites to worry about
• Brits launch movement to get happy
• The worst side effect you've never heard of
• China seeks tougher action on tainted food
• Military malpractice shield law faces fight
• Jacob's donor: Bone marrow transplant forever alters two lives
• Many confused by what's in popular painkillers
• Caring for poor, hospitals reach brink of closure
• Face transplant patient: 'It feels natural'
• Elephant therapy aims to help Thai autistic kids
• Sugar helps antibiotics work better, says study
• Black cat crossing! 13 common superstitions
• At Oregon bar, patrons belly up for free weed
• Home births to be insured in Vermont
• Poll: Majority in US back same-sex marriage
• Average drug label lists whopping 70 side effects
• Returning veterans encounter VA mental health meltdown
• Rates cut for hard-to-insure patients
• Serious snorer? Home remedies really can help
• Parkinson's disease, melanoma linked
• Medicaid to quit paying for hospital mistakes
• Bummer economy blamed for falling birth rate
• 'You'd think it would taste pretty bad': Patient drinks 6 bottles of hand sanitizer
• Heiress's nurse inherits $30 million — but should she?
• Insurance claim denied? Appeal, appeal, appeal
• Organs from inmates? That idea should be DOA

• For some primary care, try your local pharmacist
• Amid Japan crisis, hunt for better radiation care
• Plutonium health risks may not be as bad as iodine
• How healthy is your county? New report tells
• Woman mauled by chimp awaits face transplant
• Prescription pain med abuse a growing problem
• Stroke patients get boost from virtual reality therapy
• Docs choose riskier care for selves than patients
• NJ hospital to show ER wait times on billboards
• Terminally ill boy treated in US goes home to Canada
• Killer's quest: Allow organ donation after execution
• Push to spur more drugs for deadly rare diseases
• Diabetes, Parkinson's patients ponder group checkups
• Sex, coffee increase stroke risk, study shows
• More docs prescribing yoga, meditation
• How friends can make you fat
• Chummy co-workers may lengthen your life
• What's a meningioma? The science of Mary Tyler Moore's brain tumor
• Insurance gone, paralyzed athlete fights for his life
• Burning mouth syndrome may be tied to menopause
• No more Botox for minors, say lawmakers
• Hospital patients evacuated after destruction
• Hand sanitizer can lead to positive alcohol test
• Hospitals hunt substitutes as drug shortages rise
• Consumer prescription drug guide published
• Got a concussion? Check your phone
• EPA poised to ban rodent poisons
• Reports of rapes at VA centers spurs hearings
• Personal genome map solves Calif. teen's illness
• NC grapples with legacy of sterilization programs
• Court was wrong to give generic drugs pass on side effect warnings
• Bad body odor? Try these five natural cures
• Picking on the poor, obese no way to balance Arizona's budget