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Immunocompromised? Why the COVID-19 Vaccine Might Still Protect You
Immunotherapy Drug Boosts Survival for Lung Cancer Patients
Immunotherapy Drug Boosts Survival With Bladder Cancer
Immunotherapy Drug Can Beat Back Early-Stage Lung Cancer
Immunotherapy Safe for Cancer Patients with COVID-19: Study
In Breast Cancer Survivors, Obesity Raises Odds for Cancer's Return
In Cancer Patients, COVID Vaccine Immunity at 6 Months Is Similar to General Population
In Medieval Times, Plagues 'Sped Up' With Each New Outbreak
In Nonsmokers, COPD May Up Lung Cancer Risk
Income a Factor in Whether You Get Lifesaving ECMO Breathing Support: Study
Infant Deaths Spark Baby Loungers Recall
Infusion of Certain Immune Cells May Help in Severe Coronavirus Cases
Insight Into Why a Prostate Cancer Therapy Works Better for Black Men
Is an Early Form of Breast Cancer More Dangerous Than Thought?
Is COVID-19 Causing More People to Suffer Heart Attacks at Home?
Is It Safe to Have Surgery Soon After a COVID Diagnosis?
Is It Time to End Universal Masking in Hospitals, Clinics? Many Experts Think So
It Can Take Weeks for Some Patients With Severe COVID to Recover Consciousness
'Jeopardy' Host Alex Trebek Tells Fans Cancer Treatments Are 'Paying Off'
Jimmy Carter 'Happy' in At-Home Hospice Care as 99th Birthday Nears
Keep Flossing: Study Ties Gum Disease to Higher Cancer Risk
Keeping Same Nurse for All Home Health Care May Be Crucial for Dementia Patients
Kidney Trouble Greatly Raises Odds for Fatal COVID-19
Kids Born Through Fertility Treatments Have No Higher Cancer Risk
Kids' Hospitalizations Accompany Rising Unemployment Rates: Study
Kids With Cancer Not at Greater Risk for Severe COVID
Kids With Cancer Not at Greater Risk for Severe COVID-19
Kids With Uncontrolled Asthma at Higher Odds for Severe COVID-19
Know the Signs of Rare But Deadly Gall Bladder, Bile Duct Cancers
Knowing What to Expect May Help After Sexual Assault
La COVID más un ACV hemorrágico duplican el riesgo de muerte de un paciente
'Lab-on-a-Chip' Blood Test Could Spot Breast Cancer Early
Language Can Make the Difference Between Home, Hospital Care: Study
Laughter As Medicine: Clowns Help Hospitalized Kids Cope
Letting Doctors Know a Patient Has Overdosed Might Curb Opioid Overprescribing
Lockdown Loneliness Making Things Even Tougher for Cancer Patients
Lockdowns' Effects on Health Still Less Than Harm From Pandemic: Experts
Loneliness Can Cut Survival After a Cancer Diagnosis: Study
Long COVID, Big Bills: Grim Legacy of Even Short Hospital Stays
Long Distance to Care Can Mean Worse Outcomes for Young Cancer Patients
Long-Haul COVID Symptoms? Getting Vaccine Won't Make You Feel Worse, Study Finds
Losing a Sibling a Common Tragedy in Poorer Nations, Study Finds
Losing a Spouse May Be More Lethal for Men
Loss of a Twin Linked to Risk for Mental Illness
Loss of Smell May Signal Milder Case of COVID-19: Study
Lots of Sugary Drinks Doubles Younger Women's Colon Cancer Risk: Study
Loud Incubators Might Damage Preemie Babies' Hearing
Loving Partners May Be Key to Breast Cancer Survivors' Health
Low-Dose Aspirin Might Lower Odds for Digestive Cancers
Low-Dose CT Scans Can Diagnose Appendicitis
Lung Cancer Survival Continues to Improve, But Not for All
Lying Prone Can Help Hospitalized COVID Patients, But Many Can't Sustain It
'Magic Mushroom' Drug Edges Toward Mainstream Therapy
Major Drug Shortages Not Likely After Tornado Damages Pfizer Plant, FDA says
'Major Financial Hardship' Hits Most Patients Battling Advanced Colon Cancer
Majority of Workers at America's Nursing Homes Unvaccinated Against Flu, COVID
Male Breast Cancer Patients Face Higher Heart Risks
Mammogram Rates Have Rebounded Since Pandemic Began, But Concerns Remain
Mammograms Do Save Women's Lives, Study Finds
Many At-Risk Kids With COVID Can Be Cared for at Home
Many Black Men Missed Out on Prostate Cancer Care During Pandemic
Many Blood Cancer Patients Get Little Protection From COVID Vaccine
Many Cancer Patients Face Mounting Bills Despite Having Insurance
Many Cancer Patients Worry Pandemic Will Impact Their Care: Survey
Many Cases of 'Penicillin Allergy' Might Be Mistaken
Many COVID-19 Patients Given Useless Antibiotics: Study
Many Face Months of Lingering Symptoms After COVID Hospital Discharge
Many 'High-Risk' Americans Unconcerned About Skin Cancer: Poll
Many High-Risk Patients Don't Know They Need Follow-Up Colonoscopy
Many Hospital Workers Infected With Coronavirus Don't Show Symptoms
Many Hospitalized COVID Patients Will Need Longer-Term Care at Home
Many Hospitals Ignore Directives of Organ Transplant Waiting Lists: Study
Many Older Americans With Heart Failure Take 10 or More Meds
Many Pre-Surgery Tests Are Useless, So Why Are Hospitals Still Using Them?
Many Recovering COVID Patients Show Signs of Long-Term Organ Damage
Many Thyroid Cancer Ultrasound Scans Unnecessary
Many U.S. Health Care Workers Face Harassment, Burnout
Many U.S. Mammography Centers Aren't Following Expert Guidelines: Report
Medicaid Expansion Saved Lives in Affected States: Study
Medicaid Rules May Affect Americans' Cancer Survival
Medical Bill Worries Tied to Worse Outcomes for Cancer Patients: Study
Medical Groups Issue Consensus Definition of Brain Death
Melanoma Can Strike Your Nails: Here's How to Check
Men More Prone to Cancer Than Women, But Why?
Men Worldwide Have Shorter Life Spans Than Women
Men, Make Health Your Goal This Year
Mental Health Issues Double the Odds of Dying With COVID-19, Study Finds
Meth Overdose Deaths Are Surging in America, With Minorities Most at Risk
Mind-Body Effects of Qigong Might Help Ease Cancer-Related Fatigue
Mindfulness Helps Young Women After Breast Cancer: Study
Minorities Bore the Brunt of U.S. COVID Deaths: Study
Minorities Hit Hardest by COVID-19, Study Confirms
Minutes Mean Months: Getting Stroke Care Fast Is Vital, Study Confirms
Mixed Progress Against Cancers in Teens, Young Adults
Mom and Baby's Tale of Survival After Severe COVID Strikes in Pregnancy
Money Troubles Can Delay Cancer Diagnoses, Putting Survival in Jeopardy
Months After New Rule, More Than Half of U.S. Hospitals Still Don't Disclose Prices Online
More Additives Being Added to Americans' Food, Report Finds
More Americans Are Dying From Parkinson's Disease: Study
More Breast Cancer Survivors Opting to 'Go Flat' After Mastectomy
More COVID Casualties: Stroke Victims Who Put Off Treatment
More Kids Injured by Tiny Magnets After Sales Ban Was Lifted: Study
More Olive Oil May Bring Longer Life: Study
More Pot-Linked Poisoning Cases as Edibles' Popularity Booms
More Than 10 Million People Died of Cancer Worldwide in 2019
More Than Half of Cancer Survivors Fear a Recurrence
More Trees, Parks May Mean Longer Lives for City Dwellers
Most Americans Don't Follow Diets That Could Prevent Cancer
Most Cancer Screenings Make Big Rebound After Pandemic Decline
Most Injured Workers Resume Jobs After Recovery, But Finances Suffer
Most Severe COVID Cases Involve Neuro Issues, and They're More Often Fatal
Murders Surged in U.S. in 2020
Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. Hospital Personnel Still Unvaccinated
Nearly 1 in 4 Hospital Patients Have Harmful Event During Their Stay
Nearly 59,000 Meatpacking Workers Caught COVID, While 269 Died: Report
Nearly All Seniors Take Meds That Raise Their Odds of Falling
New Blood Test May Improve Liver Cancer Screening
New Clues to How Cancers Originate in the Brain
New Clues to How Ovarian Cancer Begins -- and Might Be Prevented
New Clues to Sudden Unexplained Deaths in Young Kids
New COVID Cases Were 300% Higher This Labor Day Weekend Than Last Year
New Drug Combo Boosts Survival Against Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer
New Drug Could Be Advance Against Glioma Brain Tumors
New Drug Might Be Non-Surgical Option for Common Skin Cancers
New Hope Against a Rare but Incurable Eye Cancer
New Hope Against Painful Skin Issues Caused by Cancer Radiation Therapy
New Hormonal Pill May Boost Outcomes for Older Breast Cancer Patients
New Links Between Poor Sleep, Diabetes and Death
New Opioid Use Raises Death Risk 11-Fold in Those With Dementia
New Tests for Colon, Prostate Cancer Show Promise
New Treatment Greatly Boosts Survival for Kids With Aggressive Brain Cancer
New Type of Treatment Tackles Tough-to-Treat Prostate Cancer
New Way to Blast Kidney Stones Can Be Done in Doctor's Office
Newer Hormone Treatments for Prostate Cancer May Raise Risk of Depression
No 'Last Goodbye' for Cello: 5-Hour Surgery Saved Dog's Life
Not the Flu: COVID Death Risk Is 3.5 Times That of Influenza
Number of U.S. Kids Hospitalized With COVID Is Likely Overcounted: Study
Numbers of Non-COVID-19 Deaths Up During Pandemic
Nurses Can Make the Difference for New Moms' Breastfeeding
NYC's Overdose Prevention Centers Already Saving Lives
Obamacare Boosts Colon Cancer Diagnosis, Care: Study
Obese Men May Have Better Survival With Advanced Prostate Cancer
Obesity a Big Risk Factor for Severe COVID-19, Study Confirms
Obesity Could Raise Odds for 'Long-Haul' COVID Symptoms
Obesity Raises Odds for Many Common Cancers
Obesity Tied to Shorter Survival in Cancer Patients
Odds for Emergency Room Visits Rise With Pot Use
Odds of Hospitalization, Death With COVID-19 Rise Steadily With Age: Study
Omicron Resists Pfizer Vaccine But Causes Less Severe Disease: Study
On-the-Road Help: 'Mobile Stroke Units' Are Saving People's Lives
Opioids Cause Half of All Poisonings in U.S. Kids Age 5 and Younger
Out-of-Pocket Costs Delay Cancer Follow-Up Care, Even for the Insured
Out-of-Pocket Medical Bills for COVID-19 May Average $3,800 in 2021: Study
Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis Can Take Big Toll on Women's Mental Health
Over 140,000 U.S. Children Have Lost a Caregiver to COVID-19
Over 60? You Have Billions of Potentially Cancer-Causing Cells
Over Half of Police Killings Aren't Reported, Blacks Most Likely Victims
Palliative Care Crucial After Severe Stroke, But Many Patients Miss Out
Pandemic Causing Dangerous Delays in Care When Appendicitis Strikes Kids
Pandemic Closures, Fears Keep Patients From Lung Cancer Screening
Pandemic Has ER Docs Stressed Out and Weary: Survey
Pandemic Has Greatly Slowed Pace of Cancer Research
Pandemic Has U.S. Hospitals Overwhelmed With Teens in Mental Crisis
Pandemic Having More Impact on U.S. Hospitals Than Thought: Study
Pandemic Is Tied to Big Rise in U.S. Heart Deaths
Pandemic Puts 'Outdated' Infection Control Practices Under Scrutiny
Pandemic's Two-Year Global Death Toll May Be Close to 15 Million
Parent or Sibling With Colon Cancer? You May Need Colonoscopy Earlier
Parents of Hospitalized Kids Need More Info on Costs: Study
Patient Care Delayed at Large Hospital Chain After Ransomware Attack
Patients Hospitalized With COVID Face Similar Risks, Regardless of Variant
Patient-to-Patient Transmission Not to Blame for Most C. Difficile Infections in Hospitals
Pentagon Study Finds Higher Cancer Rates Among Pilots, Ground Crews
People Die When Hospital Bed Shortages Force Patients Out
People With Untreated HIV Being Hit Hardest by Monkeypox
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Cost the U.S. Billions
Pfizer Begins Trial of COVID Drug Paxlovid in Kids 6 to 17
Pfizer Recalls All Lots of Anti-Smoking Drug Chantix Due to Potential Carcinogen
Pfizer/Moderna Vaccine Protection: 64% at First Dose, 94% at Second
Physicians Say Faulty Oxygen Devices Put Lives in Peril
Pneumonia More Deadly Than Hip Fractures for Hospitalized Seniors
Police Use of Neck Restraint Never Medically Appropriate, Neurologists Say
Pooch Power: Therapy Dogs Bring Quick Relief in the ER
Poorly Managed Diabetes Raises Odds for More Severe COVID
Pope Francis Discharged From Hospital, Leads Palm Sunday Service
Post-Op Deaths Decline for Cancer Patients, But Blacks Still More Vulnerable
Preemie Babies End Up Hospitalized More as Kids
Prescription Steroids Can Pose Dangers for Sickle Cell Patients
Program Aims to Get Lifesaving Drugs to Kids With Cancer in Poorer Countries
Progress on Lung Cancer Drives Overall Decline in U.S. Cancer Deaths
Prostate Cancer Drug Could Be 'Game Changing,' Researchers Say
Prostate Cancer: The Basics Every Man Needs to Know
Putting Hospitalized COVID Patients on Their Belly May Not Be a Good Idea After All
Quieter ORs May Make for Happier Kids After Surgery
Quitting Smoking Ups Survival After Lung Cancer Diagnosis
Race Affects Outcomes for Young Heart Transplant Patients
Race, Neighborhood Affects How Long You'll Live After Heart Attack
Radiation Plus Surgery May Be Best Against an Early Form of Breast Cancer
Radiation Rx for Prostate Cancer Can Cause Financial Pain: Study
Rates of Child Hospitalization Similar Between COVID-19, Flu: Study
Recall of Philips Breathing Machines Affects Millions of Americans
Recalled Newborn Loungers Tied to 2 More Infant Deaths
Record High COVID Cases and Deaths Reported in Florida
Record Number of COVID-19 Hospitalizations Seen in Florida
Red Cross Issues Call for More Blood Plasma to Treat COVID Patients
Red Cross Warns of Severe Blood Shortage
Research Reveals How Aspirin Helps Prevent Colon Cancer
Researchers Find Better Way to Fight Breast Cancer That Has Spread to Brain
Routine Ventilation of Surgical Patients Won't Raise COVID Transmission Risk
RSV Respiratory Illnesses Rising for Babies, Experts Warn
Rural Hospitals' ERs Just as Effective as Urban Ones: Study
Rural Women at Higher Risk of Early Death From Heart Disease
Saline IV Drip Just as Good as Pricier Options in Hospital ICUs: Study
Scientists Restore Some Function to Pig Tissues 1 Hour After Death
Scientists Spot Clues to Why Omicron Infections Are Milder
Screening Often Misses Endometrial Cancer in Black Women
Secondhand Smoke Can Raise Odds for Mouth, Throat Cancers
Secondhand Smoke Is Sending Kids to the ER
Sepsis Raises Odds for Heart Failure After Hospital Discharge
Severe COVID for People Under 45: Who's Most at Risk?
Severe Illness in Children Brings Hardship for Families
Severe Mental Illnesses Often Overlooked at Hospital Admission: Study
Severe Opioid Overdoses Rose by Nearly a Third During Pandemic
Shape, Size of Brain Arteries May Predict Stroke Risk
Sheltering at Home? Take Steps to Prevent Injuries From Falls
Shorter Course of Post-Op Radiation May Work Well for Prostate Cancer Patients
Sickle Cell Puts Black Patients at Higher Risk for Severe COVID
Side Effects From New Cancer Meds Have Silver Lining
Simple Antibiotic Switch for Pneumonia Patients Could Prevent Hospital Infection
Sleep Apnea Doubles Odds for Sudden Death
Sleep Troubles Hit Health Care Workers During Pandemic
Smaller Blood Draws for Lab Tests Reduce Need for Transfusions
Smoking Plus Vaping Just as Deadly as Smoking on Its Own: Study
Smoking Rates High Among Surgery Patients
Smoking Reduces Survival Odds After Bladder Cancer Surgery
Some Myeloma Patients Get No Protection From COVID-19 Vaccines
Some Sick Patients Get Cosmetic Surgery to Boost Appearance
Some Young Cancer Survivors Won't Get Cancer-Preventing HPV Vaccine
Speeding on U.S. Roads Is Taking Thousands of Teenagers' Lives
Statin Users May Have Added Protection Against Severe COVID-19
Statins Tied to Significantly Lower Death Rate From Ovarian Cancer
Steroid Hydrocortisone Alone May Not Cut Death Risk From Septic Shock: Study
Stressed, Exhausted: Frontline Workers Faced Big Mental Strain in Pandemic
Stroke Gaining Ground as a Global Killer
Strokes Hitting COVID Patients Are More Severe: Study
Strong Blood Thinners May Help COVID Patients, But Degree of Illness Is Key
Study Casts Doubt on 'Early Warning' System for Kidney Patients
Study Delivers More Evidence of a Mental Health Crisis Among Teens, Particularly Girls
Study Pinpoints Cancer Patients at Highest Risk From COVID
Study Spots People at High Risk of Severe Breakthrough COVID
Sudden Death More Common Than Thought in Very Young With Epilepsy
Supplements: Many Cancer Patients Think They'll Help, But Experts Urge Caution
Surge of U.S. Military Medical Personnel to Ease Medical Worker Shortages
Surgery Could Boost Survival for Women With Advanced Breast Cancers: Study
Surgery? One Type of Anesthesia Is Preferable During COVID-19 Outbreak
Surviving Childhood Cancer Can Take Toll on Adult Heart
Survivors of Severe COVID Face Doubled Risk for Death a Year Later
Survivors of Severe COVID Face Higher Odds for Another Hospitalization Soon After
Switch to Plant-Based Diet Could Protect Older Women's Brains
Take This Refresher on Skin Safety in Summer Sun
Targeted Drug Tagrisso Could Be Advance Against Lung Cancer
Targeted High-Dose Radiation Helps Fight Advanced Lung Cancer
Targeted Radiotherapy Might Help Men Battling Advanced Prostate Cancer
'Telestroke' Care at Hospitals Is Boosting Patient Outcomes
Terrifying Delirium Can Strike Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
Testosterone Might Influence COVID Severity in Men
The Future of Cancer for Americans
The 'Great Resignation' Is Taking a Toll on U.S. Health Care
Therapeutic Vaccine Is Keeping Melanoma in Remission 4 Years On
There May Be 6 Types of COVID-19
Think a Little Alcohol Might Be Healthy? Think Again
'Time Is Brain': More Americans Waiting Longer for Best Care After Stroke
Time Spent in ICU Linked to Higher Odds for Suicide Later
Tips for Making 2021 a Healthier Year
Tips to Checking Your Skin for Skin Cancer
Too Little Sunlight, Vitamin D May Raise Colon Cancer Risk
Too Many Antibiotics Might Raise Colon Cancer Risk
Too Much Restaurant Fare Could Shorten Your Life
Too Much Sitting Could Mean Worse Outcomes for Cancer Survivors
Too Often, Women Aren't Told of Sexual Side Effects of Cancer Treatments
Too Soon to Tell if Omicron Will End Pandemic: Fauci
Tough Decisions as COVID-19 Causes Cancer Surgery Delays
Tough Journeys: When Cancer Strikes People Living With Dementia
Tough State Gun Laws Help Save Lives: Study
Tougher Gun Laws, Fewer Gun Deaths: Study
'Tragic Milestone': 1 Million American Lives Lost to COVID-19
Treating Depression Could Lengthen Lung Cancer Patients' Lives
Trials Find Full-Dose Blood Thinners May Harm, Not Help, COVID Patients in ICU
Trials Show COVID Vaccines Well Worth It for Cancer Patients
Tumors Have Their Own Bacterial Colonies That Could Guide Cancer Care
Two New Symptoms That Could Point to Pancreatic Cancer
U.S. Cancer Screening Rates Back to Normal After Pandemic Dip
U.S. Cancer Survivors Now Number 18 Million
U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Top a Quarter Million
U.S. COVID Cases Fell 60% Since September, But Vigilance Still Needed: Health Officials
U.S. COVID Hospitalizations Pass Last Winter's Peak
U.S. COVID Hospitalizations Reach Record High as California Hospitals Run Out of Oxygen
U.S. COVID Hospitalizations Rise for Fourth Straight Week
U.S. COVID-19 Cases Now Top 40 Million
U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Passes 800,000
U.S. Deaths Drop in 2022, But Still Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Levels
U.S. Deaths From Cancer Continue to Decline
U.S. Hospitals Are Getting Safer for Patients, Study Finds
U.S. Hospitals Under Strain as ER Wait Times Lengthen
U.S. Infant Mortality Rate Climbs for First Time in 20 Years
U.S. Leads Wealthy Nations in Pregnancy-Related Deaths
U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for 2nd Year in a Row
U.S. Murder Rate Up 30% During Pandemic, Highest One-Year Rise Ever
U.S. Nursing Home Deaths Reach Lowest Levels Reported Since Pandemic Began
U.S. Nursing Home Deaths Rise as Delta Spreads
U.S. Pregnancy Deaths Drop Following Spike During Pandemic
U.S. Spends More on Cancer Than Any Other Country. Why Are Survival Rates Low?
U.S. Surgery Rates Rebounded Quickly After Pandemic Shutdowns
U.S. Travelers Warned About Counterfeit Pills Containing Fentanyl in Mexico Pharmacies
U.S.-Russia Nuclear War Could Leave 5 Billion Dead Due to Famine
Ukraine: The War on Cancer, Fought in a War Zone
Unhappy Marriages Could Mean Shorter Lives for Men
Up to 50,000 U.S. Kids May Be Hospitalized With COVID-19 by Year's End
Urgent Care or the ER? Which Should You Choose?
Urinary Incontinence Surgery Won't Raise a Woman's Cancer Risk
VA Hospitals Offer Quality Surgical Care: Review
VA Study Shows Black Men Twice as Likely to Develop Prostate Cancer as Whites
Vaccinated Have 1 in 13,000 Chance of Breakthrough Case Needing Hospitalization
Vaccine Slows Return of Pancreatic Cancer in Early Trial
Vaccines Cut Odds for Death From COVID Delta Variant by 90%
Vaccines' Power Against COVID Hospitalization Fades in Elderly: Study
Vaping Can Trigger Gene Changes in Cells: Study
Vaping Just Once Triggers Dangerous 'Oxidative Stress'
Very Early-Stage Breast Cancer Ups Long-Term Odds for Invasive Tumors: Study
Vitamin D Might Help Prevent Early-Onset Colon Cancer
Walking or Biking to Work Might Save Your Life
Weed Killer Glyphosate Found in Most Americans' Urine
'Weekend Effect' Affects Survival Odds for Rural Stroke Patients
Weight Loss Surgery More Dangerous for Men Than Women: Study
Weight-Loss Surgery Could Lower Women's Cancer Risk
Weight-Loss Surgery May Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk in People With Diabetes
Welcome to the 'Smart Toilet' That Can Spot Disease
Were Cancer Patients Neglected in U.S. COVID Vaccine Rollout?
What Behaviors Will Shorten Your Life?
What Exactly Is Hospice Care?
What Is More Deadly in the U.S.: Hot Weather or Cold?
What You Need to Know About Your Colon Cancer Risk
What's 'Code Blue'? New Study Finds Some Hospital Staff Mistake Emergency Codes
What's Killing Detainees at U.S. ICE Facilities?
When a Nurse Becomes a COVID Patient: Her Tough Road Back
When Booze Labels Carry Health Warnings, Drinking Declines: Study
When Cancer Strikes Those Under 40, Race Matters
When Cancer Strikes, Who's at Higher Risk for Suicide?
When COVID Strikes Cancer Patients, Men Fare Worse
When Heart Attack Strikes, Cancer Patients Often Miss Out on Lifesaving Treatment
When Rural Hospitals Close, Nearby Hospitals Suffer
When Stroke Team Comes to Patients, Outcomes Improve
Which Kids Are at Highest Risk From COVID?
Which Kids Are Most Vulnerable to Severe COVID-19?
WHO Agency Declares Aspartame a Possible Carcinogen
WHO Says Pandemic Death Total Far Higher Than Reported in Many Countries
Who's at Highest Risk From COVID-19? CDC Updates Its List
Who's Most Likely to Join a Clinical Trial?
Why Are Cases of Pancreatic Cancer Rising in Young Women?
Why Do Black Children Get Fewer Scans When They're Seen in ERs?
Why Do Black Men Still Fare Worse With Prostate Cancer?
Why Do Black Patients Fare Worse With Blood Cancer Than Whites?
Why Do Black, Hispanic Newborns Face Higher Health Risks?
Why Do Obese People Have Higher Risk From COVID-19?
Why Logging May Be the Most Dangerous Profession
Why Losing Someone to Violence Can Be Especially Tough to Get Over
Why Patients on Ventilators May Take Weeks to Regain Consciousness
Why Skin Cancer Checks Are Even More Important for Hispanic People
Why Sleep Raises Risk for Sudden Death in People With Epilepsy
Why So Many New Cancer Diagnoses When Americans Turn 65?
Wife of California Congressman Died After Using Herbal Remedy for Diabetes, Weight Loss
Wildfire Pollution Puts Kidney Patients at Risk
Wildfires Cause More Than 33,000 Deaths Globally Each Year
Wildfires Ravage Firefighters' Long-Term Physical, Mental Health
Will an Early-Stage Breast Cancer Spread? New Analysis Offers Some Answers
With 3D Printer, N.Y. Hospital Converts Sleep Apnea Machines Into Ventilators
With Holidays Ahead, COVID Boosters a Must for People With Weak Immune Systems
Women at Higher Risk When Heart Attack Strikes the Young
Women Get Help Later Than Men When Heart Attack Strikes
Women Get Worse Care for Heart Attack
Women Less Likely to Survive Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Women More Likely to Survive Lung Cancer After Surgery: Study
Women More Prone to Nighttime Cardiac Arrest Than Men
Women Smokers Less Likely to Get Cancer Screenings
Women's Cancer Screenings Plummeted During Pandemic
You Can Help Prevent Cervical Cancer
Young Cancer Survivors Vulnerable to COVID, But Often Shun Vaccine
Young, Immune-Compromised Patients Are Hotspots for Coronavirus Mutations: Study
Younger Age Doesn't Boost Survival With Advanced Colon Cancer
Your Hospital Room Could Affect Outcomes After Surgery
Your State's Laws Might Save Your Life If Breast Cancer Strikes
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