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Study: Babies Who Grow Up With Pets Are Healthier

New parents with dogs and cats sometimes consider giving pets away when a baby arrives, but a new study finds keeping the furry family members in tow may boost a child’s health benefits.

2012/07/09

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10,000 Germ Species Live In Healthy People

They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut — enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds.

2012/06/14

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New Immunodeficiency Test For Texas Newborns

Newborns in Texas will soon be screened for another potentially fatal disease. The condition is called Severe Combined Immunodeficiency or SCID.

2012/05/03

Local Doctor Talks Concussions, Vitamin D, Germs

Dr. Crystal Foster talks about the latest concussion study, the benefits of Vitamin D and what people can do to avoid catching nasty germs.

2012/03/07

CDC Releases Results Of Morgellons Disease Investigation

Five years ago, CBS 11 News began investigating a bizarre medical condition known as Morgellons Disease. Now the Centers For Disease Control is making its findings, into to whether Morgellons is a real disease, public.

2012/01/26

Damaging Citrus Plant Disease Confirmed In Texas

AUSTIN (AP) – State agriculture officials say a destructive citrus plant disease that has wiped out crops in Florida has been confirmed in Texas. The Texas Department of Agriculture on Wednesday announced that a section […]

2012/01/18

Stephen Hawking To Turn 70, Defying Disease

British scientist Stephen Hawking has managed to survive with a crippling disease. The physicist and cosmologist was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease when he was a 21-year-old student at Cambridge University. Most people die within a few years of the diagnosis. On Sunday, Hawking will turn 70.

2012/01/05