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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela is doing well after being discharged from hospital, although he is still not fully recovered, a government spokesman said on Thursday. "He is not yet fully recovered, but he has sufficiently moved forward so that he can be discharged," Mac Maharaj told local broadcaster eNCA. "He is sufficiently well to be home. . . .

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Shanghai will introduce tough new laws to blacklist firms that flout food safety laws, the official Xinhua news agency reported, a significant move in China’s consumer hub to end the food scandals that in recent years have killed children. Under the proposed law, firms caught using banned substances in food, producing food from inedible ingredients, or illegally making, selling or using banned food additives, will be banned from operating in Shanghai, Xinhua reported late on Wednesday quoting city officials. China’s food safety record is abysmal. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Offering women information on colon cancer screening via the web does not get them to take up screening any more effectively than printed materials, according to a new study. “It’s disappointing that the web didn’t have more effect,” said Dr. David Weinberg of Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, the report’s lead author. Although the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that adults between ages 50 and 75 get screened regularly for colorectal cancer, about 40 percent of people don’t follow those guidelines. . . .

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Bullying over health issues is common, according to two studies looking at kids with food allergies and those going through weight-loss programs.

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Early Childhood Obesity Rates Might Be Slowing Nation-Wide

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Just over one in 12 U. S. service members who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars had plaque buildup in the arteries around their hearts – an early sign of heart disease, according to a new study. None of them had been diagnosed with heart disease before deployment, researchers said. “This is a young, healthy, fit group,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Bryant Webber, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. “These are people who are asymptomatic, they feel fine, they’re deployed into combat,” he told Reuters Health. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The number of low-income preschoolers who qualify as obese or “extremely obese” has dropped over the last decade, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. Although the decline was only “modest” and may not apply to all children, researchers said it was still encouraging. “It’s extremely important to make sure we’re monitoring obesity in this low-income group,” said the CDC’s Heidi Blanck, who worked on the study. . . .

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Smartphone autocorrect is famous for scrambling messages into unintelligible gibberish but when one man received this garbled text from his 11-week-pregnant wife, it alarmed him: ?every where thinging days nighing,? her text read. ?Some is where!? Though that may sound like every text you?ve ever. . .

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Trees and treats can trigger allergic reactions unless you protect yourself.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela continues to respond to treatment more than two weeks after being taken to hospital in Pretoria and will remain there for Christmas Day, the presidency said on Monday. The 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero and Nobel Peace laureate has been treated for a lung infection and gallstones after being hospitalised on December 8. President Jacob Zuma said in a statement that Mandela "will recover from this episode with all our support. . . We also humbly invite all freedom loving people around the world to pray for him. . . .

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