By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Fulfilling a promise made several years ago, the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, based in London, will use 20 percent of the profits it made in the world’s poorest countries to finance health care initiatives, the company announced last
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
If your doctor tells you that highly reliable studies have shown that taking a certain pill will cut your risk of getting a serious disease in half, would you take it?
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By CARL ZIMMER
Hepatitis C is, in some ways, a high-profile disease. Worldwide, an estimated 200 million people are infected with the virus. Some of them will suffer cirrhosis, liver cancer and even death. Celebrities like Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and “Ameri
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By KIM LUTE
“First off,” the counselor began, her lips pursed in disdain, “it’s important you understand that I don’t have a nickel in the dime” — an addiction therapist’s way of saying this was my fight, not hers.
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The Squeaky Joint 2011-05-31
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY
Q. Is there research on whether fish oil supplements help ease joint pain?
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By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
On a fall afternoon in 1988, Jon Sarkin, a 35-year-old Massachusetts chiropractor, was happily playing the eighth hole on a local golf course when he felt something “twist” in his brain. Three days later he began to hear a high-pitched s
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By TARA PARKER-POPE
Tom Kerr of Pittsburgh will never forget the long-distance call from his elderly mother, who was in a hospital in the Cleveland area with a broken leg.
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By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
Anyone who has tried a high-protein diet has probably heard this warning: You may lose weight, but you risk kidney damage.
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By NY Times
Scientists know that many people inadvertently undermine their ability to fall asleep and stay asleep for a full night. Here are some frequent suggestions:
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By JANE E. BRODY
In my younger years, I regarded sleep as a necessary evil, nature’s way of thwarting my desire to cram as many activities into a 24-hour day as possible. I frequently flew the red-eye from California, for instance, sailing (or so I thought) th
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By PAULA SPAN
Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, to use a highly retro phrase, but the evidence on overtesting and overtreatment of older adults keeps piling higher.
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By PAULA SPAN
True or false? Most older drivers drive as safely as anyone else. It’s just that a few bad apples, particularly those behind the wheel despite poor vision or dementia, make mistakes and produce the statistics showing that per mile driven,
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By PAULA SPAN
When Rhea Basroon’s mother moved into a New Jersey assisted living facility a few years ago, she found a good friend in an new neighbor named Irene. Her daughters, long concerned that their widowed mother had become isolated and depressed, we
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By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
Kevin Shapiro, a 20-year-old math and physics major at the University of Pennsylvania, first tried a hookah at a campus party. He liked the exotic water pipe so much that he chipped in to buy one for his fraternity house, where he says it makes a us
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By DANIELLE OFRI, M.D.
Nicholas CampbellWhat’s a good word for “dead”? When I was a first-year medical student, I earned a few extra dollars by working the 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift in our hospital’s nursing office, where I s
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By Andrew Scrivani
If you enjoy cooking with quinoa (pronounced keen-wah), then you’ll be interested to learn how to use it best. This week Martha Rose Shulman explores the proper uses of this popular grain.
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By TARA PARKER-POPE
Craig Dilger for The New York TimesGordon Smith (right), lobbyist for the Maine Medical Association, meets with Kevin Raye, president of the Maine State Senate, at the State House in Augusta.
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By TARA PARKER-POPE
Can free medical school help fix the American health care system? In this weekend’s opinion section, two physicians, Dr. Peter B. Bach and Dr. Robert Kocher, propose that it can.
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By TARA PARKER-POPE and FELICITY BARRINGER
A World Health Organization panel has concluded that cellphones are “possibly carcinogenic,’’ putting the popular devices in the same category as certain dry cleaning chemicals and pesticides, as a potential threat to human health.
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By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D.
At first it seemed an oddity: a scattering of reports in the spring and early summer of 1981 that young gay men in New York and California were ill with forms of pneumonia and cancer usually seen only in people with severely weakened immune systems.
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