CHICAGO: Her latest mammogram was clean. But Deborah Lindner, 33, was tired of constantly looking for the lump.
Ever since a DNA test had revealed her unusually high chance of developing breast cancer, Lindner had agonized over whether to have a mastectomy, a procedure that would reduce her risk by 90 percent.
She had stared […]
NEW DELHI (AP) The experts’ consensus was that India had the most HIV cases in the world Д 5.7 million Д and that number could rise if aggressive measures weren’t adopted.
On Friday, that consensus changed dramatically when international AIDS experts and Indian health officials revealed new data showing India to have less than […]
WASHINGTON: Rarely does a politician, a party or a political system get a chance at a do-over.
Yet when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton rolls out a comprehensive health plan in Iowa on Monday, it will be just that: Clinton, or whoever the next president might be, has a second chance to fix a system that […]
James McCusker says he’d think twice before having surgery outside hospital walls again. When he opted to have a sinus procedure at an outpatient surgical center in Norwalk, Conn., an allergic reaction to the anesthesia caused him to have muscle convulsions that sent the surgeon and nurse flying into a panic, he says.
After the […]
When aerobic dancing took off in the 1980s, exercisers went for the burn and sweated to the oldies.
Now a much wider array of fitness classes is available.
Three of the biggest names in aerobic dance and exercise, Judi Sheppard Missett, Kathy Smith and Tamilee Webb, speak Sunday at the IDEA Health & Fitness Association’s […]
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