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Diabetes: Avoid joining the trend

Are you diabetic or have a close family member or friend who is? November is National Diabetes Month and brings attention to the group of disorders and their impact on millions of Americans....

DATE: Nov 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure in new guidelines

ANAHEIM, Calif. – New guidelines lower the threshold for high blood pressure, adding 30 million Americans to those who have the condition, which now plagues nearly half of U.S. adults. ...

DATE: Nov 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Is it an emergency? Insurer makes patients question ER visit

INDIANAPOLIS – Alison Wrenne was making waffles for her two young children one morning when abdominal pain forced her to the floor. A neighbor who is a physician assistant urged her to go to...

DATE: Nov 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Boy with rare disease gets brand new skin with gene therapy

LONDON – Doctors treating a critically ill boy with a devastating skin disease used experimental gene therapy to create an entirely new skin for most of his body in a desperate attempt to sa...

DATE: Nov 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Drugstore pain pills as effective as opioids in ER patients

CHICAGO – Emergency rooms are where many patients are first introduced to powerful opioid painkillers, but what if doctors offered over-the-counter pills instead? A new study tested that app...

DATE: Nov 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Concerned about inflammation? These foods may help

There’s a lot of talk about inflammation and anti-inflammatory diets – but there’s also a lot of misinformation and confusion surrounding these nutrition buzz words. Many people aren’t quite...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Do I have Alzheimer’s or don’t I?

He lived with a diagnosis for years, but he may not have it

DATE: Nov 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

FDA moves to ax claim for heart benefits from soy foods

WASHINGTON – U.S. regulators want to remove a health claim about the heart benefits of soy from cartons of soy milk, tofu and other foods, saying the latest scientific evidence no longer sho...

DATE: Oct 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

‘What could help me to die?’ Doctors clash over euthanasia

GHENT, Belgium – After struggling with mental illness for years, Cornelia Geerts was so desperate to die that she asked her psychiatrist to kill her. Her sister worried that her j...

DATE: Oct 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

A shocking overdose photo exposed her addiction – and may have saved her life

Erika Hurt had become the face of drug addiction. The young mother was captured in a photograph by police, passed out in the driver’s seat of her car outside a Dollar General stor...

DATE: Oct 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Dollars targeting opioids hit hurdles as impatience builds

Nearly a year after Congress approved an extraordinary $1 billion to tackle the opioid crisis, the money that poured into all 50 states is gradually reaching places where it can do some good...

DATE: Oct 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

U.S. vaccine panel to discuss waning effectiveness, new shots

NEW YORK – Two years ago, George Green got stabbing pain and bad blisters around his right arm. It was the worst case of shingles his doctor had ever seen. “I said, ‘Wait a minute...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health