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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An alternative to the colonoscopy? Researchers on the hunt for new colon cancer tests
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…
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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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Norway will fly its first Ebola patient back from Sierra Leone
A Norwegian working for Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone was infected with Ebola virus and will be brought home…
Read More‘Partnering for Cures’: Medical innovators team up to treat deadly diseases
Team work. That was the theme when medical thought leaders converged on New York City recently for the Faster Cures…
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Flu vaccine: Should your kids get the nasal spray?
In a new recommendation this flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that the nasal spray form…
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Ebola puts focus on drugs made from tobacco plants
It’s an eye-catching angle in the story of an experimental treatment for Ebola: The drug comes from tobacco plants that…
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