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Pregnancy is increasingly policed, with a litany of rules for parents-to-be on how to behave, a conference is to hear.
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Euro MPs back plans to make food labels clearer to consumers, but reject "traffic light" colour-coding.

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People with high levels of a B-vitamin in their blood appear to be at a reduced risk of lung cancer, experts say.


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