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Testing, Testing: How's Your Health? Thanks to Katie Couric, we know that by age 50 we should have a colonscopy to screen for colon cancer...

Short kids at risk for high blood pressure in old age When it comes to remaining healthy in old age, children who are vertically-challenged appear to get the short end of the stick, study findings suggest...

Apples may lower risk of stroke An apple a day may keep stroke at bay, new study findings suggest...

Few diabetics stick to exercise, diet plans While losing weight, exercising and quitting smoking can lower rates and improve symptoms in patients with type 2 diabetes, most patients fail to sustain such health-promoting behaviors long enough to see results...

US to study why Americans eat the way they do With more than half of all Americans now overweight, the Clinton administration said on Tuesday it would study the...

Visiting the ER with Chest Pain About 100,000,000 people visit the Emergency Room (ER) every year; more than 8,000,000 do so because of chest pain...

Junk food tax could fund health campaigns Putting a small tax on soft drinks, candy, and other snack foods nationwide could raise over $1 billion a year for health promotion campaigns, without significantly affecting the price or sales of these items, US researchers suggest...

Women Failing to Take Vitamin That Helps Prevent Serious Birth Defects Despite years of public health campaigns advising that taking the B vitamin folic acid helps prevent serious birth defects of the brain and spine, most women of childbearing age are still not taking the vitamin in time...

Women's Weaker Knees Ever heard of a three-step stop? It's one move that doctors hope will help save women's knees in basketball, soccer and other sports...

How do your children grow? Growth from ages one to 10 tends to more subtle but no less important than during infancy...