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While there hasn't been much research on the topic, experts agree that the caregivers of young children are far more likely to fall ill than adults without kids. Another byproduct of raising smiling, sneezing petri dishes is that a stomach bug that affects a child for all of an afternoon can fell an adult for days. (James Steinberg)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed a proposal Thursday that would allow people in late middle age to buy insurance through Medicare, helping to sustain an idea that sprang unexpectedly from the Senate this week.


The death rate from pandemic H1N1 influenza is four times higher in American Indians and Alaska natives than in the rest of the U.S. population, government epidemiologists reported Thursday.

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