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The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Craig B. Thompson, is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.
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The city health department’s campaign to jolt New Yorkers out of their bad habits has drawn some criticism for its negative approach.
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A golden retriever was the only thing that could reach a raging, disconnected boy.
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Researchers have found what happens to muscles when a masseur goes to work on them.
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How skipping school in late-’70s New York became a lesson in the costs of dropping out.
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On HealthTap, an interactive Web site, users can ask for medical advice, and doctors can gain whimsical “awards” for their answers.
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In the skirmish between Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood that intensified over the past week, all roads led to Texas.
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In the job market, people with disabilities bring vast experience in coping and adapting — qualities that help them become valuable employees.
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The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation apologized for its decision to cut grants to Planned Parenthood for cancer screening and said it would restore the funding.
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In fact, today's teenagers are misbehaving a lot less than their parents did.
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Could a coach bring back the intellectual vibrancy from medical-school days for one doctor, the way a music teacher inspires constant growth?
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The military has removed dietary supplements containing the ingredient dimethylamylamine from stores on its bases, though the products are widely available elsewhere in the country.
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The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation was faced with dissension in its own ranks and roiling anger online over its decision to end its long partnership with Planned Parenthood.
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Federal health officials recommended this week that all boys be routinely vaccinated against human papillomavirus, or HPV, and that people with diabetes be vaccinated against hepatitis B.
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Despite what you may have heard about risotto, this colorful dish doesn’t require constant stirring.
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The discovery in studies of mice solves a mystery surrounding the disease’s grim march and has immediate implications for developing treatments, researchers said.
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Can you solve a medical mystery involving a 43-year-old woman who suddenly falls asleep and can't be awakened?
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The ability of exercise to speed the removal of garbage from inside our body's cells may be one of its most valuable, if least visible, effects, a new study suggests.
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Two organizations dedicated to detecting and curing breast cancer have found themselves on opposite sides of the nation’s divisive debate over abortion.
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Nearly half of lumpectomy patients who had second operations may not have needed them, a new study finds.
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The American Association of Orthodontists has been running ads aimed at the rising number of adults seeking braces or teeth-straightening services.
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure was accused of bowing to right-wing pressure in its decision.
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The Food and Drug Administration called Kalydeco a “breakthrough therapy” because it treats the underlying cause of the genetic disease, rather than just the symptoms.
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Donors are pinning their hopes on several devices being tested in efforts to increase speed and reduce pain.
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Three people living with hemophilia talk about how the condition affects their lives.
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A rising number of registered nurses rank "on-the-job assault" as one of their three greatest safety concerns.
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Dr. Olney, a leading researcher of A.L.S., commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, learned in 2004 that he himself had it.
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A concept that didn’t seem to need naming until quite recently.
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With declining insurance reimbursements, more doctors are expanding their practices to include things like breast augmentation and liposuction paid for out-of-pocket by patients.
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Remains from a Siberian cave and faster, cheaper technology are helping scientists draw a complex new picture of human origins.
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A recent trip to the neighborhood farmers' market inspired Martha Rose Shulman to spend the next six days cooking with kale.
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Readers solve the mystery of a 43-year-old healthy and active woman who suddenly falls asleep and can't be awakened.
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In a book review in Science Times, Abigail Zuger takes a look at "Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality," by Hanne Blank, an expert on the history of sexuality.
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A pet trust offers owners some assurances that after they die, their pets will be cared for.
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Two new studies provide clues to how Alzheimer's disease spreads in the brain.
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"The Iron Lady" does not sidestep Margaret Thatcher's dementia.
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Shared rooms and a largely female population mean that men find it harder to find a bed in nursing homes.
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The sedentary comforts of suburban expansion have fostered obesity, poor health, social isolation, excessive stress and depression.
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Going to sleep after experiencing negative emotions appears to reinforce or "preserve" them, research suggests.
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A drug that helps the effects of eye-dilating drops fade faster exists, but is no longer sold in the United States.
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The censorship of influenza research will do little to prevent its misuse — and it may hinder our ability to stop influenza outbreaks.
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Asperger syndrome was the wrong diagnosis for me. I was really just an awkward teenager.
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William J. Broad explores yoga’s winding path and weighs claims about the practice’s benefits.
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Letters to the editor.
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Letters to the editor.
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Researchers have found, once again, that weight gain and moderate to severe acne go hand in hand, particularly among young women.
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Changes to the way autism is diagnosed may make it harder for many people who would no longer meet the criteria to get health, educational and social services, researchers say.
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Young people are expressing their affection by swapping passwords to e-mail, Facebook and other accounts.
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This "hidden" disability, currently untreated in about 85 percent of those affected, may be the nation's most damaging sensory handicap.
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Researchers are looking for opportunities to identify adolescents who have problems and to provide support.
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Federal health officials recommended on Thursday that all boys be routinely vaccinated against infection with human papillomavirus, or HPV.
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Companies, governments and nonprofit organizations are releasing money, access to databases and outreach efforts to counter diseases such as leprosy and guinea worm.
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The Institute of Medicine, an independent group of doctors and researchers, issued findings on how contraception affected women’s well-being.
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Many Catholic colleges are pushing back against a ruling by the Obama administration that the new health care law requires insurance plans at Catholic institutions to cover birth control.
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Removing information from manuscripts describing experiments that made a lethal bird flu more likely to transmit among humans “maximized the benefits to society and minimized the risks,” the government’s biosecurity panel said.
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Mr. Cioffi’s scathing critique of Sigmund Freud’s work was one of the opening salvos in the bitter debate in recent decades over the legitimacy of psychoanalytic theories.
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Differences in blood pressure readings between a patient's right and left arms could be a sign of vascular disease and a greater risk of dying from heart disease.
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A new study of women ages 18 to 44 found that drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages can alter levels of estrogen.
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This satisfying dish, made with low-fat milk, puts stale bread to good use.
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When tomatoes are out of season, canned tomatoes are a good substitute in this Apulian-style meal.
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Using precut frozen fish makes this dish economical as well as delicious.
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Whether red, black or green, curly or otherwise, the many varieties of this nutritional powerhouse serve up plenty of flavor and texture.
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Thanks to a gap between discrimination laws and disability laws, it’s possible for a pregnant woman to be forced from her job.
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Accountable care organizations will shift the focus of medicine away from treating sickness and toward keeping patients healthy.
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Pharmaceutical companies have cut spending on television advertising by 20 percent over the last five years, according to a Nielsen study. Analysts expect drug advertising to continue to fall as more brand-name drugs face generic competition.
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The drug, Erivedge, made by Genentech, was approved for adults with basal cell carcinoma that has spread elsewhere in the body or those who are not candidates for surgery or radiation.
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On most days Giovanna Poli acts like a typical 12-year-old, but she is living with sickle cell disease.
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