By TARA PARKER-POPE
Heart patients who were optimistic about their treatment and recovery were more likely to be alive after 15 years than patients with similar disease but lower expectations, new research shows.
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By HOWARD MARKEL, M.D.
Recently I found myself on the outskirts of an antivaccine rally in my hometown, listening to a succession of ill-informed diatribes with a mixture of dismay and fascination.
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By CHRISTINE NEGRONI
So far, the reports have been scattered and anecdotal. But eye doctors around the world are warning that recent cases of teenagers who suffered eye damage while playing with high-powered green laser pointers are likely to be just the first of many.
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By TARA PARKER-POPE
Do you treat yourself as well as you treat your friends and family?
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By MADELINE DREXLER
One by one, the medical students bent down to listen to my heart. There were six of them, led by a bright-eyed physician with a charming Irish accent — so charming I almost didn’t care that he never called me by name. All t
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By Kathleen Doheny
Study: People With Maternal History Had Twice the Brain Shrinkage as Those with No History
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By Salynn Boyles
Study Finds Higher Blood Pressure in Heavy Soda Drinkers
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By Jennifer Warner
Fever May Have Beneficial Effects in Fighting Infection, Say Pediatricians
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By Daniel J. DeNoon
Americans With Rare Diseases Best at Finding Online Health Info, Support
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By Kelli Miller Stacy
Men at High Risk of Developing Most Common Type of Sexually Transmitted Infection, Study Finds
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By Courtney Ware
Positive Expectations About Recovery May Increase Survival in People With Coronary Artery Disease
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By Bill Hendrick
Emergency Departments Treat an Estimated 700,000 Yearly for Drug Poisonings, Many of Them Children
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By Brenda Goodman
Experts Say Breastfeeding Also Benefits Moms by Helping Them Recover From Gestational Diabetes
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By Jennifer Warner
Study Shows People With Fatty Liver Disease Have Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
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By Denise Mann
Study Suggests HbA1C Blood Test Doesn’t Work as Well in Kids as Adults
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By MARGALIT FOX
Dr. Charles J. Epstein, a prominent medical geneticist who in 1993 was seriously injured in an attack by the Unabomber but was later able to continue his research on Down syndrome and other genetic conditions, died on Feb. 15 at his home in Tiburon,
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By GARDINER HARRIS
Younger patients would be more likely than older ones to get the best kidneys under a proposal being considered by the nation’s organ transplant network.
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By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other
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By WALT BOGDANICH
When Alain Reyes’s hair suddenly fell out in a freakish band circling his head, he was not the only one worried about his health. His co-workers at a shipping company avoided him, and his boss sent him home, fearing he had a contagious disease
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By WALT BOGDANICH and JO CRAVEN McGINTY
Because children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to radiation, doctors three years ago mounted a national campaign to protect them by reducing diagnostic radiation to only those levels seen as absolutely necessary.
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