Today's Globe: babies, AIDS trial, tomatoes, kidneys and Mississippi
More babies were born in the United States last year than ever before, according to preliminary data, but it's not another baby boom just yet.
Plans for a large-scale trial of a potential AIDS vaccine are being dropped in favor of a smaller, more focused study, the National Institutes of Health said Thursday.
The U.S. government has declared it's OK to eat tomatoes again, lifting its salmonella warning amid signs that the outbreak -- while not over -- may finally be slowing.
Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic have pioneered a new form of kidney surgery that they hope will boost the number of donors. It involves a single incision in the bellybutton which reduces the recovery time for the donor and leaves almost no scar.
The South tips the scales again as the nation's fattest region, according to a new government survey.
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Elizabeth Cooney is a former
health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a
business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical
books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.Boston Globe Health and Science staff:
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