Health Report: Feb. 23, 1998

THE GOOD NEWS

MOVE IT! A major 20-year study on exercise confirms it: you've got to get off the couch. The research, conducted on twins, shows that just half an hour of vigorous exercise twice a week can cut in half the risk of early death.

CLEARING UP A BAD SMEAR What should a college-age woman do if her Pap smear is abnormal? Maybe nothing. A bad Pap is often caused by infection with the human papillomavirus. But in many young women the infection disappears on its own--and along with it, the abnormal cervical cells.

E. COLI BEGONE! An experimental vaccine...

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