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** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, JULY 3 ** Trisha Leu, 17, who has lost 60 pounds since undergoing gastric band surgery in March, weeds the garden in the front yard of her Wheeling, Ill., home, Wednesday, June 28, 2006. The American Medical Association is considering a proposal to label children in the highest weight category as "obese" instead of the current term, "overweight." Trisha dislikes the term obese because she thinks "it sounds mean. It doesn't sound good." (AP Photo/Stacie Freudenberg)
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 The Star 
ANALYSIS - U.S. politicians may unite in obesity battle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One way to achieve bipartisanship in Washington may be to tackle an issue everyone can agree on -- the childhood obesity epidemic. People line up to buy food at a fast food... (photo: AP / Stacie Freudenberg)
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 DNA India 
New asthma program to specifically help teens
Washington, DC: A teen-specific asthma program could help people in rural areas to manage their disease and avoid potentially fatal complications, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. Black... (photo: Creative Commons / caitysparkles)
Softdrinks - Coke  The Examiner 
Dr Mercola raises serious questions about McDonalds and coke
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden at rally held in their honor at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida on October 29, 2008  Star Tribune 
Restrictions on abortion funding take on different form in Obama's health care overhaul bill
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars that some abortion opponents fear. Major anti-abortion... (photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert)
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School girls wallks out side a school  in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir. All private and government run schools reopened across Kashmir valley on Monday, March 08, after three month winter vacation. IRINnews
EGYPT: FGM/C still widespread, says WHO-funded study
web Photo: Dana Hazin/IRIN CAIRO, 8 March 2010 (IRIN) - "It is a day I don't want to remember. Whenever it comes to my mind, it sends shivers down my spine," said Aya... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
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Mothers and babies aged between 0 and 5 years are lining up in a Health Post at Begoua, a district of the Central African Republic’s capital Bangui, waiting for the two drops of the oral polio vaccine that will prevent paralysis and death, 15 May 2008. UNICEF supplies all vaccines for routine immunization as well as for National Immunization Days. UNICEF and partners assist with social mobilization, communication and some operational costs. Newsvine
WHO: 85 million African children to get polio shot
GENEVA — The World Health Organization says more than 85 million children under 5 in west and central Africa will be vaccinated... (photo: Creative Commons / hdptcar)
Africa   Children   Health   Photos   Polio
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1.2 million die on roads each year: WHO
Road accidents are the leading cause of death for youths from ages five to 29, and nearly half of the 1.2 million traffic fatalities each year are pedestrians, cyclists... (photo: GFDL / Ala z)
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FILE - In this Thursday, May 1, 2003 file photo, passengers wearing masks sit in a bus in Hong Kong to protect themselves from severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, that has killed at least 162 people in Hong Kong. The scenes now unfolding in Mexico City are familiar ones to this region. Years before the swine flu outbreak, Asia dealt with two major public health emergencies back-to-back, SARS and bird flu. Both crises offered lessons that have helped China , Vietnam and other countries in the region prepare for the emergence of the latest global epidemic, experts and officials say. m&c
WHO urges Asia-Pacific governments to spend more on healthcare
Manila - The World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday urged Asia-Pacific governments to spend more on healthcare, to alleviate the out-of-pocket medical costs that push... (photo: AP / Vincent Yu, File)
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Commuters cover their faces as a preventive measure against swine flu in Pune, India, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009. The country-wide death toll of swine flu related deaths has risen to 10, a news agency reported. DNA India
H1N1 pandemic has not yet peaked, WHO experts advise
Washington, DC: The pandemic of H1N1 swine flu has not yet peaked, a committee of experts advised the World Health Organization on Tuesday. "The committee advised... (photo: AP / Dhiraj Singh)
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