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By Emily Kopp Attendees at the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions in San Diego this year — many of them young researchers who are active ...

Recognizing that obesity remains a primary health concern impacting an increasing number of Americans, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted policy during its Annual Meeting ...

By Jay Hancock As a drug salesman, Mike Courtney worked hard to make health care expensive. He wined and dined doctors, golfed with them and ...

By Liz Szabo In the past four years, Bruce Mead-e has undergone two major surgeries, multiple rounds of radiation and chemotherapy to treat his lung ...

By Julie Appleby An overhead light drawing attention to his face, actor Danny Glover starts to cry, dropping his head into one hand — then, ...

Drinking just one glass of wine or other alcoholic drink a day increases breast cancer risk, according to a new study released by the American Institute ...

By Julie Rovner Lost in all the coverage of the firing of FBI Director James Comey last week were a pair of in-depth interviews President ...

By Julie Rovner If there’s anything congressional Republicans want to do more than “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act it’s defund Planned Parenthood, which ...