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  • More options for seniors with high drug costs

    Seniors with high drug costs will soon have more options to help them cope with Medicare's prescription coverage gap.


  • Safety rules threaten use of kids' science kits

    One of the tools that teachers use to get children excited about science — hands-on science kits — faces an uncertain future amid a debate on safety.


  • This undated handout photo provided by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) shows a baby doll on a sleep positioner. The government is warning parents and caregivers to stop using infant sleep positioners _ a soft fabric products that anxious parents put in the crib to keep babies safely sleeping on their backs. (AP Photo/CPSC)

    Govt warns about sleep positioners

    Those soft fabric sleep positioners that parents put in the crib to keep babies safely sleeping on their backs could be dangerous, even deadly, for little ones, the government warned Wednesday.


  • New debate: Mammograms may help women in 40s

    A new study from Sweden is stirring fresh debate over whether women in their 40s should get mammograms. It suggests that the breast cancer screening test can lower the risk of dying of the disease by as much as 26 percent.


  • **FILE** Rep. Bob Filner, California Democrat and chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee (The Washington Times)

    War veterans' care to cost $1.3 trillion

    The expense of caring for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is an unfunded budget liability for U.S. taxpayers that in years to come will rival the cost of entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, lawmakers will be told Thursday.


  • New mammogram study stirs debate for women in 40s

    A new study from Sweden is stirring fresh debate over whether women in their 40s should get mammograms. It suggests that the breast cancer screening test can lower the risk of dying of the disease by 26 percent or more in this age group.


  • Kids with ADHD more likely to have missing DNA

    Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are twice as likely to have missing or extra chromosomes than other children _ the first evidence that the disorder is genetic, a new study says.


  • Navy journal from 1801: Tobacco smoke saves lives

    For some 19th-century British navy surgeons, reviving men who nearly drowned after falling overboard required what is now a rather unorthodox treatment: tobacco smoke.


  • Illustration: Health care lemon by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    NOVACK: Health care overhaul is a lemon

    When will Obama administration officials realize that the more they talk about the health care law, the more people hate it? Six months after the passage of President Obama's 2,500-page health care law, the sales hype to help this monster gain popularity has come to sound increasingly like the pitch from a car salesman confronted with the truth that he's sold someone a lemon.


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