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A healthy diet can help alleviate three major risk factors for heart disease. Find out what such a diet entails.
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It took five long months for a Czech woman to discover the reason for her pain: Doctors had left a foot-long medical tool inside her.
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When it comes to the placebo effect, it really may be mind over matter, a new analysis suggests.
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A new study finds that premiums for Medicare Advantage plans offering medical and prescription drug coverage jumped 14.2 percent on average in 2010, after an increase of only 5.2 percent the previous year.
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There may be nothing like the real thing, but some industrious marijuana users have seized on an obscure but easily accessible substance that mimics the drug’s effects on the brain — creating a popular trade in legal dope that has stymied law enforcement authorities.
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Think you’re on the right track with your diet? Find out which diet myths should be destroyed.
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A new study says that happier people are 22 percent less likely to have heart problems.
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The use of high-tech diagnostic imaging in emergency rooms has quadrupled since the mid-1990s, according to a new government report released Wednesday.
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Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that he will manage his stress better after undergoing a procedure to unclog a blocked artery, but emphasized that he has no intention of slowing down.
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Some of mankind’s most devastating inherited diseases appear to be declining, and a few have nearly disappeared, because more people are using genetic testing to decide whether to have children.
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