“Wanna play a game?” It was Lisa Fletcher’s last-ditch effort to get her two young girls to bed one night…
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Hospital using bleach to control antibiotic-resistant bugs
As the infection-control czar of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, Brian Koll often turns to federal and…
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Sleep apnea tied to gout flares
Sleep apnea may increase the risk of developing gout and experiencing flare-ups, according to a new study. The intense pain…
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1,300 open-heart surgery patients warned about infection
Patients who since 2011 have had open-heart surgeries at a central Pennsylvania hospital may have been exposed to a bacterial…
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New push to stop overuse of antibiotics in nursing homes
A new front is emerging in the war on the overuse of antibiotics: the nursing home. Health officials and health-care…
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Online ads could help deliver important health messages
Those pesky ads that show up in Internet searches might have a new use — to deliver public health messages…
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Upper cervical chiropractors offer new hope to pain sufferers
After enduring car accidents when she was a young woman— none of which were her fault— Mary Steinhoff was left…
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Tricycle injuries send thousands of tykes to ERs each year
Tricycles might seem pretty tame but they send thousands of kids to emergency rooms each year and are even linked…
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Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Inc said its experimental bowel drug failed to meet the main goal in a late-stage study, sending its…
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Infants judge people from their tone of voice
Experiments conducted by researchers at the University of Toronto suggest that very young children make judgments about people based on…
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