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First Lady Set To Respond To School Meal Critics
First lady Michelle Obama is answering Republicans in Congress who want to roll back healthier school meal standards, holding an event at the White House to highlight the success of the health guidelines. The Tuesday event is an unusual move for the first lady, who has largely stayed away from polic

Industry-Funded Study Says Diet Soda Helps You Lose Weight
A new study explains why willpower might play into weight loss for diet soda drinkers.
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Natural Relief For Menstrual Cramps!
When it’s that time of the month, many women turn to Ibuprofen for menstrual pain relief! Is there a safer, more natural way to relieve the pain? Tara explains how thyme oil might be much more effective than many other medications!
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Mental Illness Shortens Life More Than Smoking: Study
According to the research, mental illness might cut life expectancy by seven to 24 years — more than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
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Affordable Health Care You Won't Find in the U.S.
May 23 (Bloomberg) — Rising medical costs in the U.S. are driving Americans overseas. Procedures like hip replacements and bypass surgeries are up to 90 percent cheaper in other countries. Here’s a look at the numbers behind the booming business of medical tourism. (Source: Bloomberg)

Hospitals Watch Diseases, Plan For Emergencies
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, has infected more than 500 people since it was first identified in 2012. About 30 percent of those who contract it die. The steep increase in the number of cases in recent months, and the fact that people in Asia, Europe and North America have come dow

Revolutionary procedure gives baby gift of sound
This week a 1-year-old baby in Round Rock is hearing sound for the first time.

Latest MERS patient no longer has virus
The latest person infected with MERS is an unidentified Illinois man who had only mild symptoms and never went to the doctor for treatment. CDC scientists believe he was exposed to the virus after casual contact with the Indiana doctor who was the first documented case in the U.S. Mark Strassmann re

Lyme Disease Is Spreading
Lyme Disease is spreading. With warmer temperatures comes more ticks and more of the illnesses they carry.

Whooping Cough outbreak renews public health record debate
It’s called the 100 day cough. Kids and adults violently coughing unable to breath, all part of what some health professionals call a state-wide health alert of Pertussis or whooping cough.

Worldwide Life Expectancy 6 Years Longer Than in 1990
Statistics from the World Health Organization show that the average life expectancy worldwide has increased by 6 years since the year 1990. Developing countries have seen the most significant rises in average life expectancy brought on by a lower infant mortality rate.
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How Food Can Make Us Sick
How often does food make us sick? Our complicated food production system, and the underreporting of food poisoning, makes it hard to tell. But by monitoring the risks in our food chain, we all might dine with a little more confidence.
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Large dose of measles vaccine clears woman's incurable cancer
A woman who had been living with incurable blood cancer for a decade was cured by a massive dose of measles vaccine.
A woman who had been living with incurable blood cancer for a decade was cured by a massive dose of measles vaccine.
The amount she was given was 10 thousand times greater than the st

Many Pitchers Are Requiring Tommy John Surgery
Major League Baseball has seen a significant increase in pitchers needing Tommy John surgery this season. Why is this happening and how can young players avoid this surgery? Chris Reckling went to look for some answers.

MERS virus threat: CDC racing to find those possibly exposed
A MERS patient in Orlando appears to have infected at least two other people. The CDC is trying to track down hundreds of passengers and crew members who may have shared a flight with the patient. CBS News medical contributor Dr. Holly Phillips reports.