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  • Oreo cookies
  • A new study finds that Oreo cookies are as addictive as cocaine.
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food, drugs, health
  • Tremor spoon helps stabilize shaking hand
  • A San Francisco start up believes it?s come up with a solution to help people with tremors eat a little easier.
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health
  • Tremor spoon helps stabilize shaking hand
  • A San Francisco start up believes it's come up with a solution to help people with tremors eat a little easier.
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food, health, carolyn johnson
  • Company creates device designed to improve posture
  • LUMOback, a Palo Alto-based company has created a device that is designed to improve posture and relieve back pain.
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health care, palo alto, smartphones, iphone, apps, android, health, carolyn johnson
  • Craze
  • Scientists say a popular sports supplement sold in nutrition stores in the U.S. and around the world is secretly spiked with a chemical similar to methamphetamine.
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drugs, fitness, food, health
  • Pumpkins.
  • According to a report by Delta Dental, 80 percent of parents admit to eating the candy their children pick up while trick or treating.
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halloween, study, health
  • Lower dose CT scans for lung cancer diagnosis
  • Bay Area doctors are now using a new screening strategy that could detect lung cancers much earlier.
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health
  • Lower dose CT scans for lung cancer diagnosis
  • Bay Area doctors are now using a new screening strategy that could detect lung cancers much earlier.
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cancer, walnut creek, health, carolyn johnson
  • A Bay Area company that pioneered a permanent form of birth control is beginning trials on a new version.
  • Erin Brockovich is leading the fight against a permanent form of birth control that was pioneered by a Bay Area company.
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mountain view, pregnancy, women's health, contraceptives, celebrity, FDA, health
  • Fat and furry: Atkins for portly pets
  • With more than half of America's pets being overweight, there are new exercise programs being developed for them.
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animal, animals in peril, obesity, fitness, health
  • Corset shaping trend could prove dangerous
  • A trend known as "corset shaping" has been coming back in fashion but doctors are warning of some potentially dangerous consequences.
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health
  • A trend known as corset shaping has been coming back in fashion but doctors are warning of some potentially dangerous consequences.
  • A trend known as "corset shaping" has been coming back in fashion but doctors are warning of some potentially dangerous consequences.
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fashion, health
  • Gary Lee.
  • Some of the nation's largest youth sports organizations, like Pop Warner, are forming an alliance to address concussions.
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children, medical research, health
  • A new device is promising to help parents keep an even closer watch on their infants using smartphone technology.
  • A new device is promising to help parents keep an even closer watch on their infants using smartphone technology.
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children, smartphones, parenting, health, carolyn johnson
  • Smartphone baby monitor offers peace of mind
  • A new device is promising to help parents keep an even closer watch on their infants using smartphone technology.
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children, smartphones, parenting, health
  • Dr. Richard Besser
  • ABC News Chief Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser talks about the Conference on Infectious Diseases.
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ABC, medical research, health
  • Consumer Reports offers tool to help pick health care
  • Consumer Reports finds most people are confused about how the new health care law affects them.
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consumer reports, obamacare, health care, health insurance, laws, health
  • Covered California website
  • Many jumped at the chance Tuesday to sign up for health care under Covered California, but complaints quickly began to surface.
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obamacare, health care, health insurance, internet, health, david louie
  • Doctors are blaming an increase in the number of people with back pain on many hours spent hunched over electronic devices.
  • Doctors are blaming an increase in the number of people with back pain on many hours spent hunched over electronic devices.
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iPad, smartphones, tablets, health
  • AIDS researchers.
  • Researchers at San Francisco's Gladstone Institutes are being awarded more than $12 million in grants to combat AIDS.
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AIDS, health
  • AIDS researchers.
  • Researchers at San Francisco's Gladstone Institutes are being awarded more than $12 million in grants to combat AIDS.
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AIDS, health, carolyn johnson
  • Doctor
  • A tech conference in Santa Clara is looking at how an already overtaxed medical care system can handle a wave of new patients.
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barack obama, health care, santa clara, silicon valley, health
  • Doctor
  • A tech conference in Santa Clara is looking at how an already overtaxed medical care system can handle a wave of new patients.
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barack obama, health care, santa clara, silicon valley, health, david louie
  • A popular fitness regime may actually be causing your body more harm than good.
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fitness, health
  • Could the human gut be a new frontier in health
  • Bay Area researchers are looking at the microbes that live in our stomachs because it could be the key to better health.
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UCSF, diets, obesity, health, carolyn johnson
  • Could the human gut be a new frontier in health
  • Bay Area researchers are looking at the microbes that live in our stomachs because it could be the key to better health.
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UCSF, diets, obesity, health
  • Stanford Hospital now offers total artificial heart
  • A new program at Stanford Hospital is giving a total artificial heart to patients waiting for a heart transplant.
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stanford university, health
  • Stanford Hospital now offers total artificial heart
  • A new program at Stanford Hospital is giving a total artificial heart to patients waiting for a heart transplant.
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stanford university, health care, palo alto, health, carolyn johnson
  • Prescription pills.
  • Federal law requires all Americans to have health care on January 1, 2014.
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obamacare, health care, health insurance, health
  • Study: Breast cancer rates declining in Marin Co.
  • There is some encouraging news about breast cancer rates in the state of California and hard-hit Marin County -- they're declining.
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marin county, cancer, study, medical research, women's health, health
  • Affordable Care Act coverage starts soon
  • Beginning Jan. 1, all Americans will be required to have health care coverage.
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health care, health insurance, health
  • ALS patient Eloise Lovelace
  • A Bay Area center is tapping a variety of technologies to help patients with ALS stay connected.
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iPad, tablets, health
  • ALS patient Eloise Lovelace
  • A Bay Area center is tapping a variety of technologies to help patients with ALS stay connected.
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medical research, iPad, tablets, california pacific medical center, health, carolyn johnson
  • Romanias Simona Halep returns the ball to US Serena Williams during their semi final match at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Saturday, May 18, 2013. Williams won 6-3, 6-0. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
  • Experts say breast reduction surgery is becoming a popular way for young athletes to get a competitive edge.
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plastic surgery, women's health, health