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With their pinkish, translucent and wrinkly skin, double-saber buck teeth and black-bead eyes, naked mole rats look like characters in a nightmare from hell. In fact, they do live underground in pitch-dark burrows where their air, from a human point of view, can contain chokingly little oxygen, t...

Just about everyone agrees that the way we pay for primary care needs fixing. Under the current insurance model, doctors get paid for procedures and tests rather than for time spent with patients, which displeases doctors and patients alike and increases costs. Now some medical practices are side...

One night three years ago, Joe Hobson finished reading a book, went to sleep and woke up blind. The problem, caused by a rare hereditary disease, forced him to give up his 20-year communications job, along with its generous health insurance. Now 63, the Arlington man is covered by Medicare, the f...

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How much fish and seafood should you eat each week? What are some good recipes?

Jennifer LaRue Huget explains how best to incorporate the new dietary guidelines on seafood into your diet.

Should they intervene early and practice a form of benign neglect, hoping that the baby fat will melt away as a child grows?

U.S. cases in those under 20 have grown from almost zero to tens of thousands in just over a decade.

Surgeon general says obesity crisis should be addressed together.

Title: Egg Donors Happy They Helped Out: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 10/27/2010 8:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 10/28/2010

Title: Massage Therapy
Category: Health and Living
Created: 8/10/2007
Last Editorial Review: 8/1/2010

Title: Study: Shark Cartilage No Help for Cancer
Category: Health News
Created: 5/27/2010 11:25:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/27/2010 11:25:12 AM

Title: Parents of Autistic Children Turning to Alternative Treatments
Category: Health News
Created: 5/2/2010 8:10:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/3/2010

A new study suggests how a notorious cancer gene may contribute to tumor growth. The insight emerged from a long-running study of a protein called PMR1, the key player in an unusual mechanism that cells use to quickly stop production of certain important proteins.

According to two recent studies, a nonsurgical treatment using stent-grafts to repair an injured or diseased thoracic aorta offered patients less risk of paraplegia as well as lower morbidity and mortality rates when compared to surgery.

USC college computational biologist Peter Calabrese has developed a new model to simulate the evolution of so-called recombination hotspots in the genome.

A third of women experience painful sex a year after giving birth and more than half report at least one sex-related health problem after having a baby.