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  • Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical
  • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reading, writing, arithmetic - and PE?...
  • Nearly all US states see hefty drop in teen births
  • NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report....
  • Shuttered NM plant resumes making peanut butter
  • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The eastern New Mexico peanut butter plant shuttered eight months ago after a salmonella outbreak is making nut butter again....
  • Birth control coverage up for federal appeal
  • DENVER (AP) -- In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill....
  • WHO: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus
  • GENEVA (AP) -- World Health Organization officials said Thursday that their probe into the deadly new coronavirus that has now claimed 22 lives is being delayed because of a dispute over the ownership rights to a sample - a claim disputed by the researcher at the center of the issue....
  • Polish man gets quick face transplant after injury
  • WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation. It was Poland's first face transplant....
  • Teen birth rates decline in most US states
  • The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
  • Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube
  • In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day....
  • Cancer Society hits 100 as US cancer rate falls
  • NEW YORK (AP) -- The American Cancer Society - one of the nation's best known and influential health advocacy groups - is 100 years old this week....
  • Portland, Ore., rejecting water fluoridation
  • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The mayor of Portland, Ore., has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city's drinking water....
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