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By Brad Broker Most men overestimate the value of early screening for prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the number 1 diagnosed cancer in men and ...
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New Artificial Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch
By Lauran Neergaard AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are moving closer to an artificial hand that can feel: Implanted electrodes allowed some amputees ...
Read More »1st Ebola Patient Diagnosed In The US Has Died
By Nomaan Merchant ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS (AP) — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died Wednesday morning in a Dallas hospital, according ...
Read More »Robotic Surgery To Remove Ovaries More Costly, Complications
By Daniela Hernandez We’ve heard it before — the robots are coming to save the day. But for certain medical procedures, that day may not ...
Read More »Drink Lots of Coffee? It’s Part of Your DNA.
By Malcolm Ritter ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — How much coffee do you drink every day? One cup in the morning? Or do you ...
Read More »California May Be First To Require Doctors To Take Drug, Alcohol Tests
By Michael R. Blood ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Voters could make California the first state to require many doctors to submit to random ...
Read More »Wal-Mart Plans 1-Stop Health Coverage Shopping
By Anne D’Innocenzio ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart is taking one-stop shopping to another area: health insurance. The world’s largest retailer plans to ...
Read More »Video Games Maturing To Legitimate Educational Tool For Kids
By Brad Broker Video games are here to stay, so it’s time to embrace them as a viable, legitimate educational tool. No one is suggesting ...
Read More »Why Do So Many Kids Have Food Allergies? They’re Too Clean.
By Bill Miller, Ph.D. When I was growing up, I never knew any child with a food allergy. Allergies of any kind seemed rare. Yet ...
Read More »Tough Texas Abortion Law Likely Headed to Supreme Court
By David Crary and Juan Carlos Llorca ASSOCIATED PRESS EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Abortion-rights lawyers are predicting “a showdown” at the U.S. Supreme Court ...
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