Health/Science

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• Top Doctors: Choosing a pediatrician

• DNA revealed, platypus still amazes

• Nassau medical center issues insulin pen warning

• Study: Less sleep, more health issues

• Shooting hoops a fun, productive workout

• Healthcare costs pinch employers

• Study: Arch Supports Can Increase Force on Knee Joint

• Flu vaccine makers to set new doses record for next season

• Island's move to energy efficiency stops at SUVs

• Study: Breast-feeding may improve IQ scores

• Committee chairman accuses VA of criminal negligence

• US offering to help China in fight against viral infection

• Pharmacists will call you: Digitek recalled

• Environmental impact of synthetic turf to be studied

• Long Island gets passing, failing air quality grades

• A workout for sitting at your desk

• Choosing a primary care physician

• Tone up for some clubbing

• Dr. Oz is Oprah's Dr. Phil antidote

• Delicate decision: To circumcise or not?

• Government asks court to block wider testing for mad cow

• Feds: Teen use of pot can lead to dependency, mental illness

• More than half of US diabetics have arthritis

Fitness & Nutrition

• Boot Camp gym gives military workout in Jericho

• The fittest of them all

Seniors

• New rule would limit insurers contact with elderly, disabled

• Diet Reduces Heart Attacks, Strokes

• Cancer Risks Detailed for Arthritis Drugs

Men's Health

• Group asks government to end use of birth-control patch

• Chantix recommended to quit smoking despite safety concerns

• FDA says Pfizer's online Viagra ad did not mention risks

• Heart exam, EKG recommended before children get ADHD drugs

AP Health

• Medical know-how raises suicide risk for doctors

• Too much, too little sleep tied to ill health in CDC study

• Humane Society releases new video of mistreated livestock

• European athletes in asthma study at Beijing Olympics

• Calling all carbs: Dietitian hired to arrest officer obesity

AP Science

• A crash course in true political science

• New idea in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye

• Scientists report the genetic makeup of the platypus

• Overlooked in the global food crisis: A problem with dirt

• Seaweed provides clues to earliest inhabitants of Americas