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Womb transplant recipient grateful for chance at pregnancy

CLEVELAND – The recipient of the nation’s first uterus transplant said Monday that she prayed for years to be able to bear a child, and is grateful to the deceased donor’s family and surgeon...

DATE: Mar 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Task force: Mammograms an option at 40, do more good at 50

WASHINGTON – Mammograms do the most good later in life, a government task force declared Monday in recommending that women get one every other year starting at age 50. It said 40-somethings ...

DATE: Jan 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Charity health care hard to come by for undocumented immigrants

Eduardo Franco Ramirez was attacked so viciously by muggers near his home in Aurora in September 2013 that the police on the scene thought he had died. The Guatemalan constructio...

DATE: Apr 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News