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  • HEALTH

    Medical robot lets doctors beam in to check on patients

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On any given day inside Mercy San Juan Medical Center's neuro-intensive care unit, a 5-foot-6-inch-tall robot with a computer screen can be seen roaming the halls.

  • HEALTH

    Measles surges in UK years after vaccine scare

    More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the specter of autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious disease.

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  • HEALTH

    What do we eat? New food map will tell us

    Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought.

  • HEALTH

    Fate of LA pot shops left to voters

    Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime.

  • HEALTH

    Consumer group flags high SPF ratings on sunscreen

    Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider misleading and potentially...

  • HEALTH

    Portland revisits issue of public fluoridation

    While soaking up the rays in what's been an unusually sunny season, Portlanders have broken away from their polite chatter about food, wine and outdoor adventure to fight about whether to fluoridate the water supply.

  • HEALTH

    Mice return from a month in space

    A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind.

  • HEALTH

    Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines

    Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined.

  • HEALTH

    5 great ways to make fitness, weight loss easier

    In fact, attempting to rely on your will power to keep the weight (fat) off of you for the rest of your life is a ticking time bomb - it's only a matter of time before something else in your life will distract you and derail you.

  • THE YOU DOCS

    Drs. Oz & Roizen: Sweeten your health by revising food choices

    If you're a cookie fiend, can't resist meat, cheese or creamy salad dressings, haven't munched broccoli since 1986 and are not sufferin' succotash, you may be a super-taster. A new Stanford University study found that at least 30 percent of us are supertasters. We dislike bitter flavors and love...

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