| (USA TODAY) -- New research highlights drugs that make cancer therapy easier, but it also underscores the difficulties patients may encounter after treatment.
ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time, health officials are proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter.
(Canadian Press) -- Researchers say they have found evidence of a degenerative brain disease in soldiers exposed to blast injuries caused by a weapon that became a hallmark of the Afghanistan conflict.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, like his divorce or inability to make friends after returning from the war.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Half of U.S. adults under 30 say they have had a sunburn at least once in the past year, a government survey found - a sign young people aren't heeding the warnings about skin cancer.
WASHINGTON -- The obesity epidemic may be slowing, but don't take in those pants yet. Today, just over a third of U.S. adults are obese. By 2030, 42 percent will be, says a forecast released Monday.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Men rarely get breast cancer, but those who do often don't survive as long as women, largely because they don't even realize they can get it and are slow to recognize the warning signs, researchers say.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- The Obama administration's top drug policy official said Tuesday that although the government continues anti-drug efforts on the Southwest border, "we cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem."
(USA TODAY) -- An internal investigation at the Department of Veterans Affairs released today says tens of thousands of veterans waited far longer last year to receive mental health treatment than what the VA contends.
(USA TODAY) -- TTC may well be the new OMG for life as a young woman with motherhood on her mind.
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