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WASHINGTON – The Pentagon on Saturday was sending about 500 active-duty soldiers to Louisiana and said 1,300 National Guardsmen (search) were in place to respond to Hurricane Rita. Five mortuary teams went to Texas. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (search) had four helicopters ready for search-and-rescue teams missions once the …

If you are overweight, new research shows how important it is to control your blood pressure besides trying to lose those extra pounds. Scientists studying nearly 250,000 people in France found that only overweight people who also had high blood pressure (search) were at significantly greater risk of dying of …

WASHINGTON – It may take until the end of October for U.S. oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico to return to near pre-Hurricane Katrina (search) levels, but it will take even longer for that much production to make it to the market, the U.S. government said …