Teenagers on a binge
Underage drinkers consume about 20 percent of all the alcohol imbibed in the United States, according to a report in The Journal of the American Medicinal Association. Many parents are aware of the
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U.S. warns on drugs from Canada
The Bush administration has threatened to take legal action against health plans and insurance companies that help people import low cost prescription drugs from Canada. Federal officials in the
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Senate votes, 64 to 33, to prohibit partial-birth' abortions
Opponents of abortion won their first major victory since Republicans took control of Congress when senators voted overwhelmingly to outlaw a procedure that has been at the center of the abortion
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Cases of respiratory illness keep climbing, especially in Asia
The number of cases of what the World Health Organization now calls Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome continued to rise through the weekend and spread to additional countries, especially in southeast
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U.S. asks $289 billion in cigarette lawsuit
The Justice Department is demanding that the biggest U.S. cigarette makers be ordered to forfeit half-centaury of
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Study finds no benefit form hormone therapy
Confounding a widely held impression, a large U.S. federal study has found that hormone therapy for menopause does not affect quality of life. Women taking the drugs did not feel more sexual pleasure
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A mystery illness
The mystery disease that has sickened hundreds of people in Asia and a handful of victims elsewhere in the world is worrisome chiefly because so little is known about it. Public health experts cannot
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A health sentence that need not be one
Why does no one have the courage to say loudly and unequivocally that 50 million people around the world are going to most a few years unless they are treated immediately with the life saving drugs
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China to grant emission permits
China, the world's second-largest producer of greenhouse gases after the United States, said it planned to stat a nationwide emissions-trading program in an effort to clean up cites such as Beijing.
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Pygmy owl causes huge environmental howl
At last count, the greater Tucson area was home to about 900000 people and 18 pygmy owls. Under deferral law, that radio is a mismatch. To protect the owls, an endangered species, the U.S. Fish and