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Carbs, fat, DNA? Weight loss is finicky, new study shows

CHICAGO (AP) – A precision nutrition approach to weight loss didn’t hold up in a study testing low fat versus low carb depending on dieters’ DNA profiles. Previous research has su...

DATE: Feb 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Stuck in an opioids crisis, officials turn to acupuncture

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Marine veteran Jeff Harris was among the first to sign up when the Providence VA hospital started offering acupuncture for chronic pain. “I don’t like taking pa...

DATE: Feb 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Can gene therapy be harnessed to fight the AIDS virus?

For more than a decade, the strongest AIDS drugs could not fully control Matt Chappell’s HIV infection. Now his body controls it by itself, and researchers are trying to perfect the gene edi...

DATE: Feb 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Flu shot only 36 percent effective, making bad year worse

NEW YORK – The flu vaccine is doing a poor job protecting older Americans and others against the bug that’s causing most illnesses. Preliminary figures released Thursday suggest t...

DATE: Feb 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

How best to treat opioids’ youngest sufferers? No one knows

CHICAGO – Two babies, born 15 months apart to the same young woman overcoming opioid addiction. Two very different treatments. Sarah Sherbert’s first child was whisked away to a h...

DATE: Feb 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

First blood test to help diagnose brain injuries gets OK

CHICAGO – The first blood test to help doctors diagnose traumatic brain injuries has won U.S. government approval. The move means Banyan Biomarkers can commercialize its test, giv...

DATE: Feb 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

14 worms pulled from woman’s eye after rare infection

NEW YORK – An Oregon woman who had worms coming out of her eye is being called the first known human case of a parasitic infection spread by flies. Fourteen tiny worms were remove...

DATE: Feb 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Marijuana’s 4/20 holiday tied to rise in fatal car crashes

CHICAGO – Marijuana users’ self-proclaimed holiday is linked with a slight increase in fatal U.S. car crashes, an analysis of 25 years of data found. The study lacks evidence on w...

DATE: Feb 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Flu season still getting worse; now as bad as 2009 swine flu

NEW YORK – The flu has further tightened its grip on the U.S. This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago. A government report out Friday shows 1 of every 1...

DATE: Feb 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

AP count: Nearly 11.8M enroll for Obama health law in 2018

WASHINGTON – Call it the political equivalent of a death-defying escape: former President Barack Obama’s health care law pulled in nearly 11.8 million customers for 2018, despite the Republi...

DATE: Feb 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

What can you do if your doctor always keeps you waiting?

Q: My doctor was seriously late for my appointment, which caused me to miss some work and basically penalized me financially. Can I demand at least a partial refund? A: Just this ...

DATE: Feb 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

2nd man has gene editing; therapy has no safety flags so far

A second patient has been treated in a historic gene editing study in California, and no major side effects or safety issues have emerged from the first man’s treatment nearly three months a...

DATE: Feb 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

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