By DEBORAH SONTAG
MILLERSVILLE, Md. — When Jerome Ndayishimiye entered the overheated room at the nursing home where his 58-year-old mother lay under a tightly tucked blanket, he quickly closed the curtains around her bed and turned on her boom box so that a me
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By KATIE ZEZIMA
A former doctor and nurse practitioner who worked in Needham were charged Thursday with the overdose deaths of six patients and overprescribing powerful prescription painkillers for financial gain.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA (AP) — Fewer teenagers and young adults are having sex, a government survey shows.
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By STEVEN McELROY
IT might seem strange that when Adam Woolley turned 26 in November, a group of his colleagues sang “Happy Birthday” as they, and he, were doing handstands.
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By FRANK BRUNI
One morning in early January, David Murdock awoke to an unsettling sensation. At first he didn’t recognize it and then he couldn’t believe it, because for years — decades, really — he maintained what was, in his immodest estimat
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By RONI CARYN RABIN
A new analysis suggests that blood pressure drugs m
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By RONI CARYN RABIN
Some 700,000 Americans are taken to the hospital each year after ingesting drugs, both legal and illegal, a new study reports. And the care costs nearly $1.4 billion in emergency room charges alone.
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By RONI CARYN RABIN
Nearly two-thirds of Americans 70 and older suffer from
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By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.
As a medical student and later during my residency, I trained for some time in a medical center known for its research and clinical trials. Every week, patients with rare diseases and cancers that had not responded to standard therapy arrived from a
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By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — The House voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to repeal burdensome tax-reporting requirements that were imposed on small businesses to help pay for the expansion of health insurance coverage under the new health care law.
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By KAREN STABINER
Most elderly women today never worked outside the home, while most of their daughters did or still do. Members of these two generations approach the question of how to spend their days with very different skill sets.
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By THE NEW YORK TIMES
More than 90 percent of nursing homes employ one or more people who have been convicted of at least one crime, according to new federal data, and 5 percent of all nursing home employees have at least one criminal conviction, The Times reported on T
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By SHERISSE PHAM
A rising number of elder abuse cases threatens to overwhelm inadequately staffed adult protective service agencies in many states, according to a report released on Wednesday by the federal Gove
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By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN
Make more oatmeal than you need for breakfast, and use the leftovers in these moist, nourishing muffins.
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By TARA PARKER-POPE
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By TARA PARKER-POPE
Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, director of the Asthma and Allergic Disease Center at the University of Virginia, says that dust mites are a problem primarily in humid areas. “If your home is full of static electricity, ”he
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By TARA PARKER-POPE
Most muffins sold in bakeries are just cupcakes in disguise. But in this week’s Recipes for Health, Martha Rose Shulman shows how to make homemade muffins into a tasty, healthful source of whole grains.
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By REED ABELSON and NATASHA SINGER
A fierce battle is being waged between retail pharmacists and mail-order companies over where people should be able to fill their long-term
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By KEVIN SACK
A federal judge in Florida stayed his own ruling against the Obama health care law on Thursday, allowing the act to be carried out as the case progresses through the Courts of Appeal and on to the
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By PAULA SPAN
In a recent post about the sometimes contentious issue of protecting seniors who are losing the ability to manage their finances, I wrote about a daughter wh
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