A 4-year-old girl is in good health after surgeons took apart her skull and pieced it back together like a…
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FDA approves hepatitis C drug that costs $1,125 per pill
WASHINGTON – Federal health officials have approved a daily pill that can cure the most common form of hepatitis C…
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Got handcuffs? What you need to know about raw milk
A friend of mine recently placed a glass of raw milk in my hands as she evangelized about its health…
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Do vitamins C and D prevent the flu?
The simple answer right now is: no. However, I believe in vitamins C and D as essential vitamins that, at…
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An alternative to the colonoscopy? Researchers on the hunt for new colon cancer tests
With a person’s 50th birthday comes a special rite of passage: The need for a colonoscopy. Though rates of colonoscopies…
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Texas patient died of mad cow-related disease, CDC says
Health officials say a Texas patient is the fourth person in the United States to die of a rare brain…
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Social media can feed Munchausen by proxy, experts say
Experts say the case of a mother accused of poisoning her 5-year-old son to death with salt appears be an…
Read MoreDoctors: Ebola drug poses ‘impossible dilemma’
Doctors treating a Sierra Leone physician with Ebola defended their decision not to give him an experimental drug, saying Wednesday…
Read MoreChinese officials seal off ‘plague’ city, puzzling US experts
A city in China has reportedly been sealed off after one resident died from bubonic plague, but this way of…
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Researchers track mental illness with Twitter
In a time when sharing thoughts and feelings in the form of a hashtag has become the norm, researchers at…
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