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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 ...

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 ...