Doctors questioned the effectiveness and safety of the main drug used to treat pandemic flu, in a report out Wednesday.…
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Parkinson’s & Dance: An Unusual Partnership
The two things that have brought Michael and Roslyn Lieb closer together couldn’t be more different: Parkinson’s disease and dance,…
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NYC Mayor considers bill that could ban smoking inside apartment buildings
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday plans to propose legislation that would require residential buildings to adopt written policies on where…
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A New Solution for Sleep Apnea
Like 18 million other Americans, Joyce Nemoga suffers from sleep apnea, a condition where the back of one’s airway collapses…
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Online dating at midlife
For many men and women looking for new love at midlife and beyond, the place to go is obvious: the…
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A Tacoma, Wash., mom is seeing red after her fair-skinned daughters returned home from school severely sunburned. Violet and Zoe…
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Kicking the smoking habit may all be a matter of genetics. New research from the Washington University School of Medicine…
Read MoreEarly signs of Parkinson’s might be seen in colon
A colonoscopy or similar test could one day diagnose Parkinson’s disease years before symptoms occur. That’s because signs of Parkinson’s…
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Alabama Deadly Hospital Infections Linked to Filtering Problem
Health officials say a filtering problem in a medical laboratory is to blame for an infection outbreak that killed nine…
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Health literature is too complex for most patients to grasp, study shows
The importance of health literacy hit home for Lisa Gualtieri when a Cambodian refugee diagnosed with cancer asked her to…
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