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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

FDA approves better vaccine against painful shingles virus

U.S. regulators have approved a new, more effective vaccine to prevent painful shingles, which is caused by the chickenpox virus. Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said the Food and Drug ...

DATE: Oct 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Ultra-personal therapy: Gene tumor boards guide cancer care

SAN DIEGO – Doctors were just guessing a decade ago when they gave Alison Cairnes’ husband a new drug they hoped would shrink his lung tumors. Now she takes it, but the choice was no guesswo...

DATE: Oct 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

A dietitian’s four favorite foods that are high in good fats

Remember when we used to think that dietary fat was bad? We believed that “fat makes you fat,” but now know that obesity is more complex than just overeating a single nutrient. It’s amazing ...

DATE: Oct 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health