Flu vaccination should be required for all doctors, nurses and other health workers, the nation’s largest pediatricians’ group says, calling it a long overdue step to protect patients.

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There’s another teenage behavior to alarm American parents. Doctors have come across a little-reported form of deliberate self-injury by teenagers — embedding objects ranging from glass to needles to wood under their own skin.

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Drugmaker Wyeth used ghostwriters to play up the benefits and downplay the harm of hormone replacement therapy in articles published in medical journals, a U.S. researcher said on Tuesday.

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But chronic drinking has been linked to high levels of the stress hormone cortisol , which can be dangerous to health. But stopping suddenly can cause the brain’s neurons to degenerate, research shows.

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When a crowd of about 50 Aussies started pawing at their suddenly burning, aching eyes, panic set in. Did somebody release poison gas? No, it’s so, so much worse.

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Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley is asking Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to address accusations that federal workers ignored complaints about conditions at two Iowa farms involved in the recall of salmonella-tainted eggs.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Good news for kids with treatment-resistant asthma: Their breathing troubles just might be treatable.

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The peanut industry executive whose filthy processing plants were blamed in a salmonella outbreak two years ago that killed nine people and sickened hundreds more is back in the business.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A splint may work just as well as a cast in helping children with non-severe wrist fractures heal, a study published Tuesday suggests.

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Using computer-generated avatars, psychologists say they have unlocked the dance moves that will capture a woman’s heart. Apparently the speed of a man’s right knee and the size and variety of movements of the neck and torso are key, they suggest.

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