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AP - Eating for two? New guidelines are setting how much weight women should gain during pregnancy — surprisingly little if theyre already overweight.
AP - Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five people in Zambia and South Africa last fall. Four of them died, but a fifth survived, perhaps helped by a medicine recommended by the scientists.
AP - Cigarette packages should include images of sickness and suffering caused by tobacco, along with written warnings, the World Health Organization said Friday.
AP - Eeeww. Theres a zoo full of critters living on your skin — a bacterial zoo, that is. Consider your underarm a rain forest. Healthy skin is home to a much wider variety of bacteria than scientists ever knew, says the first big census of our co-inhabitants. And thats not a bad thing, said genetics specialist Julia Segre of the National Institutes of Health, who led the research.