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AskMen.com April 12, 2014 Nick English	Everyone Was Wrong: Saturated Fat Is Good For You The spread of obesity has no single cause; there are a lot of complicated factors that have led to America's health crisis.
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Science News April 3, 2004 Edna Francisco	A Virus Crosses Over to Wild-Animal Hunters Hunting and butchering a gorilla apparently infected a 45-year-old man with a new virus typically found only in nonhuman primates, according to a recent study.
Chemistry World December 2006 Dennis Rouvray	Fat of the Land As we become progressively more rotund, our body chemistry undergoes critical changes that have a major impact on our health.
Managed Care December 2004 Jack McCain	The Weight Debate, Continued This article presents the views of people who indulge in what many regard as health care heresy. They challenge the conventional wisdom that millions of Americans need to lose tons of weight, fast, to stave off diabetes, heart disease, cancer.
Science News October 19, 2002 Janet Raloff	West Nile Worries Are No Reason to Give Up Breast-feeding The case of the youngest person in the United States thought to have been infected with West Nile Virus -- a newborn -- almost certainly resulted from transmission of the virus in breast milk. Still, the new findings don't warrant changing current breast-feeding guidelines.
Wired October 2006 Thomas Goetz	The Thin Pill 75 million Americans may have something called metabolic syndrome. How Big Pharma turned obesity into a disease - then invented the drugs to cure it.
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Science News September 29, 2007 Janet Raloff	Fattening Carbs--Some Promote Obesity and Worse Easily digestible carbohydrates induce obesity and liver disease in a test on rodents.
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Popular Mechanics December 1, 2006 Ben Harder	Fighting HIV by Building a New Killer In the fight to find a cure for AIDS, researchers have invented a viral double agent on a mission to seek out where HIV hides.
BusinessWeek February 9, 2004 Catherine Arnst	What You Need To Know About Avian Flu The current avian flu outbreak in Asia is the fifth since 1997 to infect humans. This has raised a red flag for infectious disease experts, who fear the strain could mutate and spark a devastating flu pandemic.
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Popular Mechanics March 2006 Jeff Wise	Fighting Fire With Fire By recreating an extinct virus that killed as many as 50 million people, scientists race to defeat avian flu before it evolves into a deadlier form.
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Wired January 2003 Richard Martin	Testing the First AIDS Vaccine Medical establishment, government, and Genentech be damned -- Don Francis has never stopped believing. Now he's about to finish testing the first human AIDS vaccine.
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Chemistry World June 5, 2007	'Atkins Hormone' Discovered Atkins-style diets have proven their metabolic worth: scientists have discovered a fat-burning role for a specific hormone stimulated by this eating regime. The work has also raised the intriguing question of whether the Atkins diet could make you live longer.
Science News June 9, 2007 Janet Raloff	Super-Size Mice--Fast Food Hurts Rodents When rodents eat the equivalent of a fast-food diet, they develop health problems similar to those seen in the movie Super Size Me.
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American Family Physician September 1, 2006 Gregory Juckett	Avian Influenza: Preparing for a Pandemic Preparing for a new influenza pandemic involves increasing global influenza surveillance and developing practical strategies for containing outbreaks at the source.
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Chemistry World December 20, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Blame it on the Bacteria The bacteria in human guts could be partially responsible for obesity, report US researchers.
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