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 | BOSTON (Reuters) - Mattel Inc, the world's largest toymaker, reached a $12 million settlement with 39 U.S. states over lead-tainted toys that prompted a health scare in 2007, the Massachusetts attorney general said on Monday.
| | | December 15, 2008 05:31 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. death rates from heart disease and stroke have fallen by about 30 percent this decade but there are ominous signs that the worrisome obesity epidemic could snuff out the progress, experts said on Monday.
| | | December 15, 2008 05:25 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Poorer lifestyle habits may go a long way in explaining why people with depression or anxiety face a higher risk of heart disease and stroke, a study published Monday suggests.
| | | December 15, 2008 05:24 PM ET
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least six new gene mutations linked to obesity that point to ways the brain and nervous system control eating and metabolism have been identified, researchers reported Sunday.
| | | December 15, 2008 05:24 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although many doctors worry about breaking bad news about seriously ill patients to their kin, most family members want to know the truth, a study published Monday suggests.
| | | December 15, 2008 05:26 PM ET
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have developed a tiny sensor that can detect small amounts of cancer-causing toxins or trace the effectiveness of cancer drugs inside living cells.
| | | December 15, 2008 05:23 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Results of a clinical trial suggest that rehabilitation at home rather than in a clinic is safe and effective for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
| | | December 15, 2008 03:17 PM ET
| SAN ANTONIO (Reuters Health) - Breast cancer patients who apply moisturizers may be dosing themselves with estrogen without even knowing it, investigators reported at a breast cancer symposium in San Antonio.
| | | December 15, 2008 04:35 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The health status of people with rheumatoid arthritis improved between 1994 and 2004, according to a new study. The researchers suggest this is most likely the result of better and more aggressive treatments.
| | | December 15, 2008 02:19 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obese people who have lost substantial amounts of weight without surgery can do just as well at maintaining the healthier weight as their peers who lost weight via gastric surgery. That's the finding of the first study to compare the two strategies.
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States settle with Mattel on lead toys
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