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‘Country is watching’ Massachusetts insurance plan

BOSTON Little more than a year after it was passed by Massachusetts officials, the nation’s first law requiring people to have health insurance faces its biggest test: Will the remaining 375,000 or so uninsured buy policies?
Signs of the state’s push for people to buy coverage are everywhere. Ads urging people to get policies […]

U.S. agency confirms food from cloned animals is safe

After years of debate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday declared that food from cloned animals and their progeny is safe, removing the last government hurdle before meat and milk derived from copies of prize dairy cows and superior hogs can be sold at grocery stores.
The decision comes more than four years […]

Non-stick chemicals may cut birth weight

Babies exposed in the womb to chemicals used in non-stick cookware and other products may be born slightly smaller than other infants, two new studies report.
Earlier tests on animals have linked two chemicals, perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA), to cancer and developmental problems.
Studies also show that the chemicals can remain in the […]

Doctors bring young cancer patients’ eggs to maturity

LYON, France (AP) Doctors have removed eggs from young female cancer patients and Д for the first time Д brought the eggs to maturity before freezing them, giving the girls a better chance to one day have children. Previously, scientists had thought viable eggs could only be obtained from girls who had undergone puberty. […]

7 Cardio Fat-Burning Secrets

If you have tried and failed at exercising more times than you care to count, you are not alone. In fact you are in the grand majority. I dont want you to feel bad or blame yourself. Its not your fault. You are not an exercise expert and the information can be very misleading. Past […]