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New diet guidelines might pull back from meat

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Where's the beef?...

Fast-food resolution: Transform junk food image

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Fast-food chains have a New Year's resolution: Drop the junk....

Fake bar part of research into anti-drinking drug

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's no skunky bar odor amid the beer taps. Instead of booze, colored water fills the bottles. The real alcohol is locked away but still close enough for the extra temptation of smell - and to test the safety of a new drug designed to help heavy drinkers say "when" sooner than usual....




UN tally of Ebola-linked deaths tops 8,000
BERLIN (AP) -- The World Health Organization says more than 8,000 people are thought to have died last year from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa....

Italian doctor who got Ebola is declared cured in Rome
ROME (AP) -- An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola in November while working in Sierra Leone has been declared cured and been discharged from a Rome hospital....

GOP legislators thwart bids to expand Medicaid
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Governors across the political spectrum are hitting a roadblock in their bids to expand Medicaid with federal funds: Republican legislators who adamantly oppose "Obamacare."...

AP-GfK Poll: Americans support menu labeling
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than half of Americans say they already have enough information at restaurants to decide whether they are making a healthy purchase. But they want even more....

5 things to know: Obama health law again in play
WASHINGTON (AP) -- New episodes in the nation's long-running political drama over health care are coming via your news feed in 2015....

Report prompts mixed view of health care sign-ups
The first 50-state report on the latest sign-up season under President Barack Obama's health care law shows that more than 4 million people selected plans for the first time or re-enrolled....

First baby of 2015? It's a secret in many places
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Bye, bye Baby New Year. The crowning of the year's first baby is being kept secret in many communities as hospitals say safety concerns trump tradition....

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