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Up to 60% of Teens in Some U.S. Schools Used E-Cigs: Study
Virtual Care After Surgery May Be More Convenient For Patients
Walking or Biking to Work Might Save Your Life
Want Your Kids to Eat Veggies? Both Parents Must Set Example
Weight-Loss Surgery Lengthens Life Span, Study Shows
Weight-Loss Surgery Lowers Long-Term Heart Risks for Diabetic Teens
What Behaviors Will Shorten Your Life?
What Is More Deadly in the U.S.: Hot Weather or Cold?
What People With Sickle Cell Disease Need to Know About COVID-19
What Works Best to Ease the Pain of Sciatica?
What You Should Know If Your Surgery Has Been Put on Hold
What's the Best Treatment for a Child's Broken Bone?
What's the Best 'Uterine-Sparing' Treatment for Fibroids?
When Chronic Pain Leads to Depression in Kids
When COVID-19 Strikes in Pregnancy, C-Section Tied to Worse Outcomes
When Is Surgery Not Safe for Seniors?
When it Comes to Classroom Performance, Praising Kids Works Best
When Parents, Grandparents Don't Agree on Childrearing Choices
Which Surgery Works Best for Lower Back Pain?
Why Do Black Men Still Fare Worse With Prostate Cancer?
Why Do Black Patients Fare Worse With Blood Cancer Than Whites?
Why Does Death Risk From Melanoma Rise After Loss of Spouse or Partner?
Why Is Stroke a Bigger Threat to Black People?
Why Your Kids' Playground Is Unsafe During COVID-19 Pandemic
Wildfire Pollution Puts Kidney Patients at Risk
Will Schools Reopen in September? And What Will That Look Like?
Will Your Kid Play School Sports This Fall? Here's Some Guidance on Doing It Safely
With COVID Vaccine in Works, 1 in 5 Americans Doesn't Believe in Shots
With Equal Access to Care, Blacks, Whites Have Similar Prostate Cancer Outcomes
With Safety Steps, Moms Unlikely to Pass COVID-19 to Newborns: Study
Woman With Severe COVID-19 Gets Life Saving Double-Lung Transplant
Women at Higher Risk When Heart Attack Strikes the Young
Women Get Worse Care for Heart Attack
Women More Likely to Survive Lung Cancer After Surgery: Study
Young Black Adults More Prone to Stroke, but Don't Know It
Your Guide to a Safe and Happy Halloween
Zika Virus Tied to Profound Developmental Delays
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