| BERLIN (dpa) -- Doing a job that does not correspond to your abilities generates stress that could lead to burnout as you are constantly forced to pretend to be something you are not.
CHICAGO (AP) -- It happened to nurse Jane Byron years after an in-line skating fall, business owner Haralee Weintraub while doing "men's" push-ups, and avid cyclist Gene Wilberg while lifting a heavy box.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama, grappling with a political firestorm that threatened to consume his administration, unveiled a birth control compromise Friday that he said would both protect religious liberties and ensure that women have access to free contraception.
ATLANTA (AP) -- More and more U.S. adults are being told by their doctor to get out and exercise, according to government survey released Thursday.
(Associated Press) -- Students at Shippensburg University in central Pennsylvania can get the "morning-after" pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine installed at the request of the student government.
(Associated Press) -- Detecting early warning signs of dementia can be difficult, but there are several types of cognitive screenings -- quick, simple tests of memory and thinking skills -- that can help a doctor decide if it's time to recommend a more in-depth exam.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- A drug shown to be highly effective in preventing breast cancer in postmenopausal women at high risk for the disease appears to worsen age-related bone loss, despite regular ingestion of calcium and vitamin D, researchers have discovered.
WINNIPEG (Canadian Press) -- Canada's highest court is set to hear arguments over whether it's a crime for people with HIV to keep their condition from their sexual partners if the risk of transmission is low.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Television already has "The Biggest Loser." Dr. Mehmet Oz is looking for the biggest number of losers.
LONDON (AP) -- British researchers say parts of England and Wales with more suicide prevention programs had bigger drops in deaths than regions with fewer services.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) -- Michelle Obama says a proposed new supermarket in the middle of a blue-collar Hispanic neighborhood in Southern California is an example of how the effort to bring healthy foods to low-income communities is paying off.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates -- creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women.
CHICAGO (AP) -- About 16 million Americans have oral HPV, a sexually transmitted virus more commonly linked with cervical cancer that also can cause mouth cancer, according to the first nationwide estimate.
CHICAGO (Chicago Tribune) -- The recent news of three Chicago-area children fatally crushed by falling TVs has rippled far beyond their communities to help reignite the debate on TV safety.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Foot and leg amputations were once a fairly common fate for diabetics, but new government research shows a dramatic decline in limbs lost to the disease, probably due to better treatments.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The pharmaceutical industry won approval to market a record number of new drugs for rare diseases last year, as a combination of scientific innovation and business opportunity spurred new treatments for diseases long-ignored by drug companies.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actors in adult movies filmed in Los Angeles will be required to use condoms under an ordinance signed into law by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and porn industry leaders say the regulation could lead them to abandon the nation's porn capital.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California did not suffer a single death from whooping cough in 2011, the first year since 1991 that there have been no fatalities in the state from the highly contagious illness, health officials said Tuesday.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- A class of drug long used to treat prostate enlargement appears to have benefits for men diagnosed with low-risk, localized prostate cancer -- delaying disease progression and reducing patients' anxiety, a Canadian-led international study has found.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Recent headlines offered a fresh example of how the health care system subjects people to too many medical tests -- this time research showing millions of older women don't need their bones checked for osteoporosis nearly so often.
(The Orange County Register, Calif.) -- Do you have a cold or the flu?
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- A study of helmets used by children for winter activities offers some new data on the various types of head protection that would suit tobogganers.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A new government study suggests a lot of teenage girls are clueless about their chances of getting pregnant.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A routine news story took a strange turn when an ABC "Nightline" anchor had a full body scan that turned up a possible warning sign.
ATLANTA (AP) -- New research could mean millions of older women can skip frequent screening tests for osteoporosis: If an initial bone scan shows no big problems, many can safely wait 15 years to have another one, the study suggests.
LONDON (AP) -- Abortion rates are higher in countries where the procedure is illegal and nearly half of all abortions worldwide are unsafe, with the vast majority in developing countries, a new study concludes.
CHICAGO (AP) -- America's obesity epidemic is proving to be as stubborn as those maddening love handles, and shows no sign of reversing course.
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