| Chicken producers debate 'natural' label |
| A disagreement among poultry producers about whether chicken injected with salt, water and other ingredients can be promoted as 'natural' has prompted federal officials to consider changing labeling guidelines. |
| Editor changes industry-backed tanning pill study |
| A journal editor has scrubbed a line supporting the use of a L'Oreal-Nestle tanning pill from the conclusion of a company-sponsored study. |
| Little harm seen from painkiller shots for pro athletes |
| When professional athletes in sports like football and rugby are injured, they commonly get injections of pain-numbing anesthetics to help them stay in the game. Now a new study suggests that, while safety concerns remain, most athletes may not su... |
| Doctors: Transplant advance in windpipe cancer |
| Doctors have successfully transplanted windpipes into two cancer patients in an innovative procedure that uses stem cells to allow a donated trachea to regenerate tissue and create an organ biologically close to the original, they said Friday. |
| For blood pressure, can you be fit but fat? |
| If you're trying to bring your blood pressure to healthy levels, a new study suggests that how much you weigh is more important than how fit you are. |
| What prevents falls after strokes? Study: Not much |
| While most stroke survivors will suffer falls, strategies to prevent these dangerous events continue to fall short, suggests a new study out of Australia. |
| Eastern Africa polio-free, but cases found in Russia |
| Eastern Africa is free of polio again, with four countries -- Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda -- having reported no cases of the crippling disease for more than a year, U.N. and other aid agencies said Friday. |
| Companies start shipping U.S. flu vaccines |
| Two flu vaccine makers said on Friday they had started shipping supplies for the U.S. market, one of the earliest starts ever to distributing seasonal influenza vaccine. |
| Two die in Florida from mosquito-borne disease |
| Two Florida residents have died from Eastern equine encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease that is rare among humans but has infected a rising number of horses in the state, health officials said on Friday. |
| The pill equally effective in obese, thin women |
| Despite studies suggesting that birth control pills might not work as well in obese women, a new study suggests that they prevent pregnancy the same no matter what a woman weighs. |
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