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Loneliness can be contagious

Feelings of isolation can spread through groups of friends as easily as a cold, a new study finds. Full story

Increasing worker stress seen in benefits use
CDC: Swine flu cases may be declining
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7 things you didn’t know about health bill

Little-publicized provisions in the Senate health care bill include breast-pumping rooms and bone scans. Full story

Will you pay more for insurance after reform?
World AIDS Day

The faces of the AIDS epidemic

Image: A boy gzaes through a window during a nap session at the Mai Hoa orphanage in An Nhon Tay, Vietnam.
Redux Pictures

Slideshow: On World AIDS Day, see images of the disease’s global impact.

Newsweek: An unconventional scientist may cure AIDS
Interactive map: AIDS around the globe
S. Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies

Country has more infected people than any other. Full story

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