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Lawsuit: Cancer survivor claims landlord evicted her over illness
A Manhattan cancer survivor claims her landlord harassed her and evicted her from her apartment, because the apartment’s management company…
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6 gross health treatments
Talk about stomach-turning: Recently, a study from the New England Journal of Medicine found that transplanting excrement from a healthy…
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Cancer-free woman undergoes 7 months of chemotherapy after misdiagnosis
In 2009, Herlinda Garcia received news that would change her life: She had Stage IV terminal breast cancer. Garcia had…
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A British woman said she “burst into tears” when doctors told her she had flesh-eating maggots living in her ear…
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Hospital officials say conjoined boys born last month in Dallas have been safely separated and are doing well. Officials at…
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The ugly reality of medical mistakes
There has been a lot of talk recently about all of the things that can go wrong in the health…
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Sneezing allergy sufferers try to avoid plant pollen like the plague. But U.S. military troops could end up popping vaccine…
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5 revolutionary Nobel Prizes in medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded Oct. 7 to a team of scientists who discovered how the…
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Itching a form of pain? Discovery of mysterious cells answers debate
A mysterious source of itchiness has been found. Certain nerve cells are specialized to detect itchy sensations, and those receptors…
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