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Drinking just one glass of wine or other alcoholic drink a day increases breast cancer risk, according to a new study released by the American Institute ...

By Michelle Andrews On an afternoon a few weeks ago, Faithe Craig noticed that her temperature spiked to just above 100 degrees. For most people, the ...

By Alan Lyndon There’s a stigma attached to medical marijuana, particularly if a parent is giving it to their child.  But this type of marijuana ...

By Alan Lyndon Teens don’t get enough sleep.  That’s not new information.  The question is: what can parents do about it? Last year, a study ...

By Judith Graham Alzheimer’s disease has an unusual distinction: It’s the illness that Americans fear most — more than cancer, stroke or heart disease. The rhetoric surrounding Alzheimer’s ...

By Rhea Go-Coloma Mary, 89, who has a history of heart failure and spinal stenosis, lives at home with her elderly husband. Over the past few ...

Linda Radach has had six hip replacement operations since 2006, three on each side. Osteoarthritis was the reason she needed surgery in the first place, ...

By Bruce Horovitz, Kaiser Health News Since he watched his mother drop dead, Richard Bridgman’s fear of death has left him emotionally paralyzed. It was right ...

Six-year-old Jimmy Spagnolo — dressed in Superman gear — broke into an awesome celebratory dance as he beat his krypotnite.  After a yearlong chemotherapy treatment ...

All the doctor’s tricks were failing him. He’d tried neck massage, pressure to the eyes, ice on the face. But an hour in, Ashish Jha still couldn’t ...