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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 ...

Patients scored a victory in the tough negotiations over the Republicans’ overhaul of the tax code. The deduction that allows people with very high medical ...

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 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 ...