By Janice Lloyd
Beware a "silent killer" making the rounds during this winter's cold snap.
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By WILLIAM NEUMAN
The federal government on Wednesday significantly cut its estimate of how many Americans get sick every year from tainted food.
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By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
After years of fierce lobbying and debate, Congress approved a bill on Wednesday to cover the cost of medical care for rescue workers and others who became sick from toxic fumes, dust and smoke after the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The city of Oakland’s plan to license large medical marijuana growing operations was put on hold after a warning from the district attorney that city officials could face prosecution.
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By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN
I often make a wild rice salad for Thanksgiving; with leftover turkey, it lasts for several days afterward. It’s one of my favorite post-Thanksgiving meals. If you have other vegetables on hand, add them to the salad, too.
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By JENNIFER S. CHANG, M.D.
William Siewert almost died from an enlarged prostate. Not prostate cancer, just a “benign” enlarged prostate. He is yet another example of the people who fall victim to our currently broken health care system. He agreed to
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By REED ABELSON
Maybe something isn’t always better than nothing. Or so went the argument offered by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, the West Virginia Democrat, in a hearing on Wednesday about a controversial kind of health plan that seems desti
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By TRIP GABRIEL
Rushing a student to a psychiatric emergency room is never routine, but when Stony Brook University logged three trips in three days, it did not surprise Jenny Hwang, the director of counseling.
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By DUFF WILSON
Two senators are raising new questions about an experimental use of a Medtronic device in spinal surgery on veterans and soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center from 2002 to 2004.
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By PAULA SPAN
Ptolemy Usher Grey, who’s 91 and living in confused isolation in Los Angeles, keeps radio and television news blaring all day long, partly to keep himself from drifting ever farther into the past, partly because he’s afraid that if he tu
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By PATRICK EGAN
Patricia Wendler had been trying to sell her Southport, N.C., home for four years. Just before Thanksgiving, she finally got an offer, with one major contingency: Mrs. Wendler, 80, had less than three weeks to move, or no deal.
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Meet the Twiblings 2010-12-30
By MELANIE THERNSTROM
Midway on our life’s journey, I found myself in dark woods, the right road lost. I’ve actually never read “The Inferno,” but I found that line in my mind every morning when I woke to do my hormone injection and especially on
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In Praise of Nurses 2010-12-30
By Dana Jennings
Oncology nurses and ostomy nurses. Radiation nurses and post-op nurses. And those essential, always-there-when-you-need-them, round-the-clock nurses. (And though most of my experience is with female nurses, I admire male nurses, too.)
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By DANIELLE OFRI, M.D.
Electronic medical records promise efficiency, safety and productivity in the switch from paper to computer. But there are glitches, as a patient of mine recently brought to light.
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By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a New York City law that would have forced all bodegas and convenience stores to post gruesome images of diseased lungs, brains and teeth in the shops to discourage people from buying cigarettes.
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Blood Will Tell 2010-12-29
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY
Q. A friend has hemochromatosis, a common genetic disorder that is treated by regular drawing of blood. Can that blood be donated? A. Hereditary hemochromatosis results in iron overload, “which, if not reduced, can lead to cirrho
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Malaria cases jumped 25 percent in Sri Lanka from 2009 to 2010, the country’s ministry of health is reporting. And while this year’s total is still small, at 580, the trend is unsettling to experts.
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By RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN, M.D.
NEW HAVEN — When the medical journalist Annie Murphy Paul’s first son was a toddler, she started wondering how personality traits are passed from one generation to the next. So she did what any reporter would do: she delved into the scie
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By AMIR A. AFKHAMI, M.D.
IRBIL, Iraq — “Are you a Muslim, Dr. Amir?” The question took me aback, as it would any American psychiatrist wary of self-disclosure. But this was Iraq, where religion is central to people’s lives and identitie
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By PAULA SPAN
Martin A. Makary, a surgeon and public health researcher at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, had a long talk with a patient last week. The man had a tumor in his pancreas that was probably benign but might not be. Should Dr. Makary remove it? Or
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