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Trans fat ban made fast food a bit healthier in NY

Trans fat ban made fast food a bit healthier in NY

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July 16, 2012 9:16 pm

Know your BMI: Docs urged to screen for obesity

Know your BMI: Docs urged to screen for obesity

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June 25, 2012 4:00 am

At left, undated handout image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows a clump of Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteria (green) in the extracellular matrix, which connects cells and tissue, taken with a scanning electron microscope, showing. At right, undated handout image provided by the Agriculture Department showing the bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one type of microbe that will be studied as part of NIH's Human Microbiome Project. They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut _ enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds. Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or on us and where, calculating that healthy people can share their bodies with more than 10,000 species of microbes. (AP Photo/NIAID, Agriculture Department)

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10,000 germ species live in and on healthy people

Lauran Neergaard -

June 13, 2012 8:46 pm

EMBARGOED UNTIL 5 P.M., MONDAY, JUNE 11 - In this photo taken Friday, June 8, 2012, a sign is posted for

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Noisy hospitals need Rx for quiet as patients rest

Lauran Neergaard -

June 12, 2012 6:56 am

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