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WASHINGTON—The former director of the National Institutes of Health is advising women to ignore new guidelines that delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer.   Full Story
 
 
ED BLONZ
Advice from a Kensington nutritionist with a doctorate  
 
 
HEALTH NEWS FROM MERCURY NEWS
Palo Alto was chosen by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for one of its survivor gatherings because of a cluster of deaths that have occurred along the Caltrain tracks there over the past seven months, a so-called 'hot spot' where four Gunn High School students took their own lives.  
 
 
HEALTHY RECIPES
 
SWINE FLU»
Gary Reyes
Nurses vaccinated 200 children at Lowell Elementary, a school serving poor and immigrant families who likely don't have health coverage. Rumors of death and African monkeys surrounding the vaccine kept some parents and children away.  
 
 
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