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By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Nov. 3, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Older adults with a strong sense of purpose in life may be particularly likely ...

Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old woman who moved to Oregon after learning of her terminal illness, died Saturday after taking the lethal drugs that were legally ...

SATURDAY, Nov. 1, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Despite recent efforts to create awareness about concussion among young athletes, a new study found that high school ...

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Oct. 31, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Malfunction of a key brain protein called tau is the likely culprit behind Alzheimer’s ...

Terminally ill 29-year-old Brittany Maynard has released a new video as part of her joint campaign with Compassion & Choices to expand access to death with dignity ...

Kaci Hickox, the nurse who returned from Sierra Leone with a low grade fever and was quarantined first by New Jersey and currently Maine, this ...

By Jeff Donn and Garance Burke ASSOCIATED PRESS  The U.S. health care apparatus is so unprepared and short on resources to deal with the deadly ...

By Brad Broker Should travelers returning from Ebola-stricken countries be subjected to a mandatory quarantine? New Jersey, New York and several other states say yes. ...

As Halloween approaches, so does encouraging news regarding memory loss and chocolate. A small study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience has found that natural memory loss ...

By Michelle Andrews KAISER HEALTH NEWS Take a break from worrying about Ebola and get a flu shot this fall. While the Ebola virus has ...