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NM 36th in obesity
New Mexico ranked 36th in the nation in annual rankings of obesity among adults.
 
Smith’s expands recall on beef
Smith’s Food and Drug Stores says it is expanding its recall on beef to include packages weighing two pounds or more of store-brand labeled beef grind 85/15 with sell-by dates of April 27 to June 1.
 Recall notice
 
Buddy Check 4
On the 4th of every month we remind you to please do your monthly breast self exam and then call your "buddy" and remind her to do the same.
 
Advocates are back with real health care stories
When carpenter Greg Douglas rolled his pickup truck, his toolbox hit him and smashed his ribs and collarbone. After a month in the hospital, the medical bills hit him even harder, totaling $165,000.  
 
Federal probe finds problems with chelation study
A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death.  
 
Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people
With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is _ so far _ more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people’s respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday’s edition of the journal Science.  
 
CDC: US swine flu cases rise to nearly 34,000
The number of U.S. swine flu cases has reached nearly 34,000, and deaths have risen 34 percent in the past week to 170, federal health officials reported Thursday.  
 
Holder having surgery for cracked tooth
Attorney General Eric Holder had emergency oral surgery Thursday to remove a cracked tooth.  
 
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