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The dangers of relying on the body mass index, the threats to children's health, and saving money on health care, plus more from our Daily Briefing.
Overdiagnosing breast cancer, health statistics by county, obesity worse than thought, and straight talk on the political causes of rising costs.
Medical Marijuana: Federal agents raided the “Oaksterdam” medical marijuana training school today, briefly detaining school founder Richard Lee, one of the nation’s best-known advocates of medical marijuana, Terry Collins reports for the Associated Press.
IUDs are safer than doctors think, autism diagnosis up, cancer diagnosis down, speculating on health reform and more from our Daily Briefing.
The last day of Supreme Court health reform arguments, disquieting cancer research news, little-tested medical devices and more from our Daily Briefing.
The individual mandate to buy insurance, a new poll on feelings about reform, surgery for diabetics, and more from our Daily Briefing.
Health reform goes to the Supreme Court, environmental health woes in Mecca, and possible new regulation for Calif. medical marijuana users, plus more from our Daily Briefing.
Why did Catholic bishops pressure the Komen Foundation to withdraw financial support from Planned Parenthood? One investigative reporter has the answers.
Gastrointestinal deaths are on the rise in the United States, and norovirus and c. difficile are partly to blame.
Why are nitrates from agriculture such a big problem for groundwater in California's fertile Central Valley?
