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A disease you’ve never heard of affects 2 million

There aren’t many diseases that have been newly identified in recent decades, but one with a tongue-twister of ...

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Look out, cancer: Here comes immunotherapy

Is there finally a cure for cancer on the horizon? If you picked up a New York Times, ...

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Slim progress in fight against childhood obesity

This is one in an occasional series about children’s health issues. We know that many of our readers ...

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High-tech cancer-zapper has docs ‘beaming’

There’s a good reason why Scully-Welsh Cancer Center radiation oncologist Dr. Stuart Byer and Dustin Boring, the manager ...

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Why ‘heart failure’ doesn’t always mean the end

The term “heart failure” is pretty grim. If your heart fails it’s all over, right? Game, set and ...

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Restaurant portions equal heaping helping of calories

A new study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics verifies what many ...

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Fibromyalgia sufferers benefit from acupuncture

As sufferers know too well, effective treatment for fibromyalgia can be hard to come by, in part because ...

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Progress on Parkinson’s: There’s help if you seek it

More than a million Americans live with Parkinson's disease and nearly 60,000 new diagnoses are made each year. ...

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Plastic surgery is – and isn’t – what many think

The “plastic” in plastic surgery doesn't come from recycled polyethylene or polyvinyl chloride. It comes from the Greek ...

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‘Vest’-ed interest in this ‘designer’ defibrillator

You can “shop-til-you-drop” for clothes by Karl Lagerfeld, Zac Posen, Giorgio Armani or Ralph Lauren. You may even ...

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Study touts soy’s benefits in protecting against bone loss

A recent study suggests women undergoing menopause may be protected against bone loss and osteoporosis by a diet ...

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Patient-centric focus paying off for the hospital

Enough data has now been collected to show that “patient-centric” cancer programs using nurse navigators dramatically improve outcomes ...