By MARC E. AGRONIN, M.D.
The woman described the sensation as a delicate flicker, like a moth trapped in a small gauze bag. She ran her slender fingers repeatedly over the spot in her slightly distended abdomen and said, “Doctor, right here.”
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By IAN LOVETT
Gordie Greco was hooked on gambling almost from the first time he shot dice at age 16. And for 35 years, gambling was his life: he worked in the industry and made his own bets on sports and horses.
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By RONI CARYN RABIN
A crib should be a safe place to leave an infant, but every day dozens of babies are injured in falls from cribs, according to what may be the first study focusing on nonfatal crib-related injuries in children younger than 2.
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By RONI CARYN RABIN
A study of almost 400,000 people aged 50 to 71 has found a strong link between a high-fiber diet and a longer life.
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By RONI CARYN RABIN
YouTube videos are spreading word of a self-destructive behavior already disturbingly common among many teenagers and young adults — ‘cutting’ and other forms of self-injury that stop short of suicide, a new study reports.
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Of Heart and Guts 2011-02-23
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY
Q. Is it better for digestion to sleep on the left side and better for the heart to sleep on the right?
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By DAN FROSCH
For more than a decade, Mark Cooper has had a bustling naturopathy practice in Colorado Springs, treating everything from chronic headaches to digestive problems to insomnia.
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
With the help of the American government, the first methadone maintenance program in sub-Saharan Africa opened this month in a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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By JOHN TIERNEY
The 21-year-old woman was carefully trained not to flirt with anyone who came into the laboratory over the course of several months. She kept eye contact and conversation to a minimum. She never used makeup or perfume, kept her hair in a simple pony
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By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
Every book is born alone, but sometimes a pair will surface in accidental synchrony, a single theme creating an impromptu pas de deux.
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By ROBERT PEAR
One of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s legacies in the new health care law, intended to allow the chronically ill and people with disabilities to continue living in their homes, is too costly to survive without major changes, Obama administration
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By PETER B. BACH, M.D.
As a medical student 20 years ago, I learned all about anatomy, physiology and pharmacology. My professors also taught me, implicitly, how to put on the white doctor coat as a shield against human vulnerability. With the coat on, you could get right
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By MILT FREUDENHEIM
Dr. Richard J. Hodes presides over the nation’s prime source of grants for studies of aging at a worrisome time for researchers. Just when the cohort of elderly Americans is surging, many scientists fear that government budget cuts may hamper
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By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D.
Ron Reagan’s new memoir, “My Father at 100,” has touched off sensational headlines with its suggestion that President Ronald Reagan might have begun showing hints of Alzheimer’s disease while still in the White House.
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By ADAM LIPTAK
People injured by vaccines that they say were improperly designed must rely solely on a compensation system created by a 1986 law and may not sue vaccine manufacturers, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
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By Jennifer Warner
Survey Suggests Many People Call an Ambulance for Minor Medical Emergencies
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By Kelli Miller Stacy
Researchers Say Videos May Provoke or Reinforce Harmful Behavior by Young People
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By Salynn Boyles
New Guidelines Say Treatment Plans Should Take Into Account More Than Just Disease Severity
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By Jennifer Warner
IBD May Double Risk of Serious Blood Clots, Study Finds
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By Denise Mann
Study Shows Changes in Brain Activity in People With Social Phobia Treated With Psychotherapy
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