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Doctors are experience burnout at higher rates than ever before and, unfortunately, resolving their conflicts with suicide. “Four hundred U.S. physicians take their own lives ...

  By Julie Rovner As House Republicans try to find common cause on a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, they may be ...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. — After Yarly Raygoza attended the drug prevention program at the Boys & Girls Club here last year, she used what she learned ...

Many people drink diet soda to avoid the excessive calories found in the regular stuff.  Turns out, both regular and diet soda may be linked ...

By Michelle Andrews Limiting the number of foreign doctors who can get visas to practice in the United States could have a significant impact on ...

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 ...