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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 Sandra G. Boodman When Donna Helen Crisp, a 59-year-old nursing professor, entered a North Carolina teaching hospital for a routine hysterectomy in 2007, she expected ...

By Julie Rovner Republicans are in a hurry to get their “repeal and replace” health care bill to the House floor. In just the week since ...

By Alieta Eck, MD Dr. Tom Price, our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been accused of belonging to a “conservative, fringe medical ...

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 ...

We’re not sure which child Mom likes best, but now we know which one is smarter. Researchers from The University of Edinburgh have found that first ...

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 ...