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Michelle Obama Joins Disney in Healthy Living Campaign
First Lady Michelle Obama joined the Walt Disney Company in a new media campaign designed to give parents and kids more reasons to eat...
Boston Firefighters Get Oxygen Masks for Pets
The Boston Fire Department on Wednesday received a donation of small oxygen masks designed for pets, which will become standard equipment on every fire...
Ancient Fruit Shows Promise For Modern Healing
Amalaki, a simple fruit from India, has been a superstar of eastern medicine for thousands of years.
Unknown in the west, the fruit has a...
New Skin Cancer Drug Appears to Work When Nothing Else Does
Gene targeting drug therapy may offer hope for those with difficult-to-treat advanced-stage skin cancer according to preliminary data published last week in the New...
New Grants to Improve Patient Safety and Curb Malpractice Suits
The prevalence of medical malpractice suits has long been the bane of physicians and providers of health care. Fear of lawsuits discourages the sharing...
Heart Attacks Down 24% Over Ten Years, 62% for Worst Type
Preventive measures to help people lower their risk of heart disease have been so effective that a new study documented a drop of 24%...
Doctors Provide Free Health Care Nationwide This Saturday
A group of physicians have organized free health care clinics across 26 states tomorrow that will treat, screen and counsel patients who need care....
New Vaccine Could Prevent Breast Cancer
Imagine a vaccine for adult women that would prevent breast cancer, just like the vaccines received as children prevented polio. Cleveland Clinic researchers have...
Study Finds Scientific Basis for Acupuncture Benefit
Scientists have taken another important step toward understanding just how sticking needles into the body can ease pain. In a paper published Sunday...
Breakthrough Method Predicts Risk of Invasive Breast Cancer
For the first time, scientists have discovered a way to predict whether women with the most common form of non-invasive breast cancer are at...
Harmonica Man Cheats Death With Music
After his ninth heart surgery, 70-year-old Andy Mackie's doctors had him on 15 different medicines. But the side effects made life miserable. So one...
The Law of Distraction: How to Focus Like a 5-year old
How good are you at keeping your focus on your goal? Not so much? The Law of Distraction is probably the culprit. ...
U.S. Unveils Plan to Help Afghan Women Build Better Lives
Empowering women is critical to improving life in Afghanistan and key to a brighter future there. Last week the Obama administration unveiled a plan...
Experiment Moves Past Stem Cells, Advancing Brain Treatment
In a "dramatic" breakthrough that has positive implications for Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, researchers have transformed ordinary mouse skin cells directly into functioning nerve cells,...
Puerto Rico Sends ‘Barge of Hope’ to Haiti
Although the barge's official name is the Carribean Pride, Puerto Ricans who've loaded it with 6 million pounds of food and medicine, plus generators...
Obama Pledges $100M to Haiti: You Will Not be Forsaken
This morning, President Obama updated the world on the first phase of US rescue and relief efforts: "At this very moment one of the...
Sick Kids in Hospital Now Connect with Friends Online
Hospitalized children in Canada who can't go home for the holidays have a new online way of keeping in touch with their friends...
Documentary Validates Role of Placebo Effect in Controlling Health
A documentary released this year questions the exclusive role of genetics and medicine in determining and treating disease. It examines alternative healthcare methods that...
More Good News about Vitamin D and Aging
If you haven't increased your vitamin D intake in recent years, you haven't been reading the recent research — and perhaps your doctor...
UCLA Scientists Make Paralyzed Rats Walk Again After Spinal Cord Injury
UCLA researchers have discovered that a combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and regular exercise can enable paralyzed rats to walk and even run...