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  • Healthier schools: Goodbye candy and greasy snacks

    Goodbye candy bars and sugary cookies. Hello baked chips and diet sodas. The government for the first time is proposing broad new standards to make ... 

  • From pets to 'recess': High school stress relief

    The four-legged member of the counseling team at the high school in suburban Chicago waits patiently, as a crush of students fills the hallways. 

  • Barbara Walters

    ABC: Barbara Walters is out of the hospital

    ABC says Barbara Walters is out of the hospital and recovering from chicken pox at home. ABC said Tuesday that the 83-year-old host on "The View" is ... 

  • Egypt to vaccinate after polio found in sewer

    Egypt will carry out a vaccination campaign for children in parts of Cairo after polio was recently found in the capital's sewage, believed to have ... 

  • Russia shelves plan to shut child cancer clinic

    The intention to turn a St. Petersburg clinic treating pediatric cancer patients into one that would exclusively serve judges and staff of Russia's ... 

  • Obesity in young kids dropped in NYC, grew in LA

    In the battle against childhood obesity, New York City appears to be doing better than Los Angeles, at least for low-income preschoolers. A study ... 

  • Tanya Angus

    Vegas woman who couldn't stop growing dies at 34

    As a teenager growing up in Las Vegas, Tanya Angus strutted along fashion runways. She was 5 feet 8 inches tall. But at the time of her death Monday, ... 

  • Risk to all ages: 100 kids die of flu each year

    How bad is this flu season, exactly? Look to the children. Twenty flu-related deaths have been reported in kids so far this winter, one of the worst ... 

  • FLU SEASON

    A snapshot of influenza activity in all 50 states

    Here is a snapshot of flu activity in all 50 states and the District of Columbia: Alabama: Like many states, Alabama is having an earlier and busier ... 

  • Q&A: Scramble for vaccine as flu season heats up

    Missed flu-shot day at the office last fall? And all those "get vaccinated" ads? A scramble for shots is under way as late-comers seek protection from ... 

  • Poll: Few Americans know all the risks of obesity

    Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but what about the many other ways obesity can damage your health? Carrying too many pounds may lead ... 

  • 2012 was worst year for whooping cough since 1955

    The nation just suffered its worst year for whooping cough in nearly six decades, according to preliminary government figures. Whooping cough ebbs and ... 

  • Pakistan child measles deaths surge in 2012

    Measles cases surged in Pakistan in 2012, and hundreds of children died from the disease, an international health body said Tuesday. In recent days ... 

  • AP IMPACT: Big Pharma cashes in on HGH abuse

    A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the ... 

  • Brazil debates treatment options in crack epidemic

    Bobo has a method: Cocaine gets him through the day, when he cruises with a wheelbarrow around a slum on Rio's west side, sorting through trash for ... 

  • Traditions in Chad harm, kill underfed children

    On the day of their son's surgery, the family woke before dawn. They saddled their horses and set out across the 12-mile-long carpet of sand to the ... 

  • Mo. students lose 756 pounds at SC boarding school

    Sixteen-year-old Jason Alexander weighed 326 pounds four months ago when he and 13 classmates boarded a plane for a weight-loss boarding school in ... 

  • Pakistani polio workers get police protection

    Under police guard, thousands of health workers pressed on with a polio immunization program Thursday after nine were killed elsewhere in Pakistan by ... 

  • Gunmen kill 5 female polio workers in Pakistan

    Gunmen shot dead five women working on U.N.-backed polio vaccination efforts in two different Pakistani cities on Tuesday, officials said, a major ... 

  • Lack of food stunts Chad children, damages minds

    One morning, a little girl called Achta sat in the front row of this village's only school and struggled mightily with the assignment her teacher had ... 

  • Study: People worldwide living longer, but sicker

    Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with the diseases ... 

  • Sick girl who left Phoenix hospital appears safe

    The family of an 11-year-old leukemia patient whose mother unexpectedly took her from a Phoenix hospital last month has a history of removing the ... 

  • Kenmari Williams

    USDA to allow more meat, grains in school lunches

    The Agriculture Department is responding to criticism over new school lunch rules by allowing more grains and meat in kids' meals. 

  • Father: Sick girl safe and being treated in Mexico

    The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a sick girl with leukemia deepened Wednesday after her father said his 11-year-old daughter is being ... 

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