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February 19, 2020 at 2:00 pm

Age-bias study finds doctors tend to withhold heart surgery at a certain number

People are more likely to buy things when prices end in 99 cents rather than rounded up to the next dollar, or cars with mileage...

February 10, 2020 at 4:33 am

Drugs fail to slow decline in inherited Alzheimer’s disease

Two experimental drugs failed to prevent or slow mental decline in a study of people who are virtually destined to develop Alzheimer's disease at a...

Business

February 2, 2020 at 5:46 am

New China virus details show challenge for outbreak control

It can spread person to person, even if someone is showing no symptoms. The next in line can continue to pass it on. The incubation...

January 8, 2020 at 2:00 pm

Program meant to curb repeat hospital stays fails big test

Researchers thought they had a way to keep hard-to-treat patients from constantly returning to the hospital and racking up big medical bills. Health workers visited...

December 18, 2019 at 2:01 pm

Study estimates that half of US adults will be obese by 2030

There's no way to sugarcoat this news: Nearly half of American adults will be obese within a decade and one-quarter will be severely so, a...

December 13, 2019 at 7:38 am

Breast cancer risk from menopause hormones may last decades

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Women who use certain types of hormones after menopause still have an increased risk of developing breast cancer nearly two decades...

December 11, 2019 at 2:16 pm

More Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals VIEW

For the first time since the early 1900s, more Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals, a trend that reflects more hospice care...

December 11, 2019 at 7:55 am

New drugs show rare promise against advanced breast cancer

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Doctors on Wednesday reported unusually good results from tests of two experimental drugs in women with an aggressive form of breast...

Nation & World

In this Nov. 22, 2019, photo, Charles Flagg, who is stricken with Alzheimer’s disease, makes a peanut butter sandwich for lunch at his family home in Jamestown, R.I. Flagg is participating in a study on the drug Aducanumab. New results were released on the experimental medicine whose maker claims it can slow the decline of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) RICK207 RICK207

December 5, 2019 at 9:08 am

Experts split sharply over experimental Alzheimer’s drug

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A company that claims to have the first drug to slow mental decline from Alzheimer's disease made its case to scientists...

Nation & World

November 27, 2019 at 2:00 pm

MRIs of dense breasts find more cancer but also false alarms

Giving women with very dense breasts an MRI scan in addition to a mammogram led to fewer missed cancers but also to a lot of...