ATLANTA (AP) - For the first time, health officials are proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter.

(Canadian Press) -- Researchers say they have found evidence of a degenerative brain disease in soldiers exposed to blast injuries caused by a weapon that became a hallmark of the Afghanistan conflict.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government wants you to know that simply sporting a pair of Skechers' fitness shoes is not going to get you Kim Kardashian's curves or Brooke Burke's toned tush.

NEW YORK (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- The number of women dying of pregnancy and childbirth complications has almost been reduced by half, the UN Population Fund said Wednesday.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, like his divorce or inability to make friends after returning from the war.

(USA TODAY) -- Despite a breast-feeding brouhaha kicked off last week by a Time magazine cover photo of a mom nursing her 3-year-old son, that's actually the norm worldwide, experts say. But in the United States, breast-feeding children that old is practiced among a tiny sliver of mothers.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Half of U.S. adults under 30 say they have had a sunburn at least once in the past year, a government survey found - a sign young people aren't heeding the warnings about skin cancer.

WASHINGTON -- The obesity epidemic may be slowing, but don't take in those pants yet. Today, just over a third of U.S. adults are obese. By 2030, 42 percent will be, says a forecast released Monday.

BANGKOK (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Economic development and aggressive marketing of infant formula has led to a dramatic decline in breastfeeding in East Asia, threatening the cognitive development of children in the region, UNICEF has warned.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Vogue magazine, perhaps the world's top arbiter of style, is making a statement about its own models: Too young and too thin is no longer in.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials say more teen girls use the best kinds of birth control.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 15 million premature babies are born every year -- more than 1 in 10 of the world's births and a bigger problem than previously believed, according to the first country-by-country estimates of this obstetric epidemic.

WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- The Obama administration's top drug policy official said Tuesday that although the government continues anti-drug efforts on the Southwest border, "we cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem."

MERIDIAN, Idaho (AP) -- Midwives and doctors are longtime rivals in the politics governing where women should give birth: Home or hospital.

(USA TODAY) -- An internal investigation at the Department of Veterans Affairs released today says tens of thousands of veterans waited far longer last year to receive mental health treatment than what the VA contends.

(USA TODAY) -- TTC may well be the new OMG for life as a young woman with motherhood on her mind.

(USA TODAY) -- Amid reports of weeks elapsing before veterans are able to begin mental health treatment, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday an immediate, nearly 10% increase in mental health staffing across the country, adding 1,900 therapists and other workers.

TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- There is more variation in breast cancer than current treatment approaches acknowledge, according to the largest effort to date to distinguish between and find out what's driving breast cancer tumours.

(Chicago Daily Herald) -- The deadliest form of skin cancer has long been thought to be mainly a threat in late middle age and among men.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More people pull the night shift. Teens text past midnight and stumble to class at dawn. Travelers pack red-eye flights.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Eight Planned Parenthood organizations sued Texas on Wednesday for excluding them from participating in a program that provides contraception and check-ups to women, saying the new rule violates their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and association.

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