By WALT BOGDANICH and KRISTINA REBELO
The initial accident report offered few details, except to say that an unidentified hospital had administered radiation overdoses to three patients during identical medical procedures.
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By ANDREW POLLACK
The gene responsible for cystic fibrosis was discovered in 1989. Now, 22 years later, a drug that tries to compensate for the genetic defect might be nearing the market.
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By ANDREW POLLACK
The Food and Drug Administration has granted a hearing for Genentech to argue in favor of preserving the approval of its drug Avastin as a treatment for breast cancer.
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By DUFF WILSON
Medtronic could save more than $40 million a year through its decision to cancel five group-purchasing contracts worth $2 billion and to negotiate prices directly with hospitals instead, Bernstein Research said in an investor note on Friday.
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By PAULA SPAN
When the Direct Care Alliance first offered the test that would lead to becoming a credentialed “personal care and support professional,” Maria Frank, a 60-year-old home care aide in Nazareth, Pa., signed up.
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By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
When was the last time you flashed a fake smile at the office? For some, it may be just another mundane aspect of work life — putting on a game face to hide your inner unhappiness. But new research suggests that it may have unexp
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By JANE E. BRODY
Anyone seriously interested in improving the health of Americans and reducing the costs of health care must be willing to tackle a growing and underappreciated problem: the vast number of patients with more than one chronic illness.
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By SINDYA N. BHANOO
An adult zebra fish can regenerate a damaged heart with no scar formation. This remarkable phenomenon has been seen in other fish and amphibians as well, but never before in a mammal.
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By DUFF WILSON
A federal judge on Wednesday unsealed a government proposal that outlines what it wants tobacco companies to say in national advertising and on cigarette packages — that they lied to the American public about so-called light cigarettes and the
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By ABBY ELLIN
AURI REYNOSO, a hairstylist in Englewood, N.J., says she wanted to roll out of bed “looking beautiful.” So three years ago, she asked Melany Whitney, a certified permanent-cosmetics professional based in New York, New Jersey and Florida,
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By BRANDI GRISSOM
Dressed in an orange Harris County Jail-issued jumpsuit, Sterling Shepherd sat at a metal picnic table and described what got him into this situation — again.
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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 GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
With temperatures warming and the snows of 2011 finally dissolving into oatmeal slush, many people are feeling an insistent urge to get outside and run, perhaps even to start training for a spring marathon or other distance race. But for some of us,
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Feeding the Nurses 2011-02-26
By THERESA BROWN, R.N.
I joke that nurses will do anything for food. Good food, bad food, healthy food, junk food — we’re not particular. Patients must understand that too, because they constantly bring us food.
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Need an Extra Hand? 2011-02-26
By TARA PARKER-POPE
Doctoral student Arvid Guterstam conducts experiments aimed at tricking the brain into believing the body has three arms.
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By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D.
This week, “Dateline” on NBC devoted an entire hour on Sunday evening to allow the actress Suzanne Somers to express her rather unconventional beliefs about cancer.
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Preventing infection in a wound may depend less on choosing the right antibiotic than on simply keeping it clean.
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Women taking fertility treatments can relax, researchers say: Despite the common wisdom, being worried or tense does not affect one’s chances of becoming pregnant.
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By PAM BELLUCK
In the Oscar-nominated movie “The King’s Speech,” King George VI begins stuttering at 4 and struggles with it throughout his life. But he rarely talks like the stereotypical stutterer, Porky Pig, rapidly repeating letter sounds; us
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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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