By IAN LOVETT
Californians are smoking less than most other Americans.
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By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve t
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By KEVIN SACK
The Obama administration plans to announce Monday that it will make $206 million in bonus Medicaid payments to 15 states — with more than a fourth of the total going to Alabama — for signing up children who are eligible for public health
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By AMY HARMON
They had told him on his last visit: the experimental drug that had so miraculously melted his tumors was no longer working. His legs were swollen, the melanoma erupting in angry black lumps. The patient, a computer consultant in his 40s, had little
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By WALECIA KONRAD
CLAIRE ALBA is determined to nail two New Year’s resolutions at once: staying fit and saving money.
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By KAREN BARROW
Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times The Alba family will be joining a Y.M.C.A. in Brooklyn in the coming year to cut down on gym costs.
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By TOBY BILANOW
People make the party, but blini are always an exciting addition. As Martha Rose Shulman writes in this week’s Recipes for Health: If you want something fun for a New Year’s Eve buffet, look no farther than these ye
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By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
THE FACTS Using heat to conquer a cold sounds like a no-brainer. Inhaling steam or humidified air — a cold remedy as old as the steam kettle — supposedly clears congestion, improves breathing and kills off cold viruses, whi
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By JANE E. BRODY
Jim Vlock is on a mission. Afflicted 15 years ago with macular degeneration, a retinal disorder that erodes central vision and thus the ability to drive, read, watch television and recognize faces, Mr. Vlock is determined to spread the word about th
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Americans are living longer, but those added years are more likely to be a time of disease and disability.
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Parents may think they can set a good example for their children by eating a healthy diet themselves, but a new analysis finds that it may not work.
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Can taking a placebo be effective even if the patient knows it is a placebo? A new report suggests the answer is yes.
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By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
Another year ends, and still the war drags on. In the final salvo of 2010, the combatants are lobbing fruit.  Not literally, of course, though they might like to: The long war of the weight-loss diets has aroused passions just about as overheated
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By Denise Mann
Researchers Say Parents Need to Be Aware of Potential Side Effects of Alternative Medicine
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By Daniel J. DeNoon
Study Shows Girls Now Have as Much Noise-Induced Hearing Loss as Boys
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By ANDREW POLLACK
Eugene Goldwasser, a largely unsung biochemist whose 20-year pursuit of an elusive protein led to the development of a widely used anemia drug that became one of the biggest products of the biotechnology industry, died Friday at his home in Chicago.
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By REED ABELSON
When the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in October, the unusual action was widely seen as a warning shot to dominant health insurance carriers in many other states.
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
A small study at an urban pediatric clinic suggests that children younger than 12 are routinely consuming so much caffeine that it could interfere with their sleep. The source, almost exclusively, is caffeinated soft drinks, like Coca-Cola.
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
A new study suggests that what matters to your health is not how much alcohol you drink, but how and when you drink it.
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