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Abortion is safe but barriers reduce quality of care, report says

WASHINGTON – Abortions in the U.S. are very safe but getting one without facing delays and false medical information depends on where women live, says a broad examination of the nation’s abo...

DATE: Mar 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Push to better track living kidney donors’ long-term health

WASHINGTON – The big unknown when someone donates a kidney: The long-term health consequences. Now the U.S. is taking a step toward finally tracking how living donors fare over decades – jus...

DATE: Feb 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Tiny implant opens way to deliver drugs deep into the brain

WASHINGTON – Scientists have created a hair-thin implant that can drip medications deep into the brain by remote control and with pinpoint precision. Tested only in animals so far...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

What about the memory test Trump aced? It’s not for everyone

WASHINGTON – Drawing a clock. Counting backward by sevens. Rattling off words that begin with “F’’ before a minute’s up. They may not sound like difficult tasks, but they’re part ...

DATE: Jan 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Century after pandemic, science takes its best shot at flu

WASHINGTON – The descriptions are haunting. Some victims felt fine in the morning and were dead by night. Faces turned blue as patients coughed up blood. Stacked bodies outnumbere...

DATE: Jan 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Striking a chord, NIH taps the brain to find how music heals

WASHINGTON – Like a friendly Pied Piper, the violinist keeps up a toe-tapping beat as dancers weave through busy hospital hallways and into the chemotherapy unit, patients looking up in surp...

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Are 3-D mammograms really better? U.S. puts scans to the test

WASHINGTON – A better mammogram? Increasingly women are asked if they want a 3-D mammogram instead of the regular X-ray – and now U.S. health officials are starting a huge study to tell if t...

DATE: Dec 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Replacing lymph nodes to ease painful legacy of cancer care

WASHINGTON – Breast cancer treatment left Susan Wolfe-Tank with an arm too painfully swollen to lift anything heavy or even fit into her usual clothing – a debilitating condition that gets l...

DATE: Dec 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Expanding DNA’s alphabet lets cells produce novel proteins

WASHINGTON – Scientists are expanding the genetic code of life, using man-made DNA to create a semi-synthetic strain of bacteria – and new research shows those altered microbes actually work...

DATE: Dec 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Replacing lymph nodes to ease painful legacy of cancer care

WASHINGTON – Breast cancer treatment left Susan Wolfe-Tank with an arm too painfully swollen to lift anything heavy or even fit into her usual clothing – a debilitating condition that gets l...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Baby gene therapy study offers hope for fatal muscle disease

WASHINGTON – A first attempt at gene therapy for a disease that leaves babies unable to move, swallow and, eventually, breathe has extended the tots’ lives, and some began to roll over, sit ...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trying to get sober? NIH offers tool to help find good care

WASHINGTON – The phone calls come – from fellow scientists and desperate strangers – with a single question for the alcohol chief at the National Institutes of Health: Where can my loved one...

DATE: Oct 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

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