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• Mediterranean diet may help prevent dementia, study says
  Eating a diet rich in healthy fats and limiting dairy and meat could do more than keep your heart healthier. It could also help keep you thinking clearly.
  
• How to fight childhood obesity in 3 steps
  Worried about your child's weight? You can do more than just nag him or her about eating too much junk food. Implementing three healthy family habits--eating dinner together, making sure they get enough sleep, and limiting TV--may help.
  
• Study: Older moms' kids have higher autism risk
  A 10-year study examining 4.9 million births in the 1990s has found more evidence that there's a link between autism and the mother's age at conception.
  
• In sickness and in health, couple's love endures
  The 30 years that Tom and Vera Forkner have loved each other have been up and down, smooth and rocky, but a chronic illness presented a new challenge.
  
• Study: 'Electronic cigarettes' don't deliver
  "Electronic cigarettes" that vaporize nicotine juice to inhale instead of smoke from burning tobacco do not deliver as promised, according to research at Virginia Commonwealth University.
  
• Michelle Obama's war on childhood obesity
  The convenience store near my house is where I first became aware of the problem.
  
• Jackson doc charged with manslaughter
  Michael Jackson's doctor was charged Monday with involuntary manslaghter in connection with the pop star's June 25 death at age 50.
  
• Health care meeting to be televised Feb. 25
  President Obama's bipartisan meeting on health care reform planned for February 25 will be broadcast live, a senior administration official said Monday.
  
• H1N1 flu continues to kill, CDC warns
  Federal health officials urged Friday that more Americans get vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus, sometimes referred to as swine flu, which continues to kill.
  
• Obama, Hill leaders set date for health talks
  President Obama and a bipartisan group of leaders from the Senate and the House will meet February 25 for specific talks aimed at a compromise on health care legislation, a White House official told CNN on Sunday.
  

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