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The love story star Ryan O’ Neal spoke for the first time on how his relationship with wife Farrah Fawcett has become more intense since she is suffering with...
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Nearly three in 10 Americans say Fox News Channel has been too critical of President Barack Obama.
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Twin 5-year-old girls living with a rare disease are among the first in the country being treated for their condition at a Reno hospital after the U.S. Food and Drug...
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In a study testing treatments for leg ulcers, British doctors found that a surprising, yet perhaps revolting, option works just as well as standard treatment: maggots.
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The HBO psychotherapy series “In Treatment” and the movie dramatization of the 2000 election aftermath “Recount” both earned five Golden Globes...
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Treatment with certain epilepsy drugs may expose some Asian patients to serious skin reactions, federal health officials warned Monday.
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An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight...
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A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a...
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The Iraqi prisoner had valuable intelligence, U.S. special forces believed, and they desperately wanted it. They demanded that expert American military trainers teach...
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Close to two million older people in England may be denied treatment because depression is wrongly seen as a natural part of getting older, says a charity
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The global AIDS bill signed by President Bush on Wednesday sets a goal of treating more than the 2 million-patient target set in 2003, but how much more isn’t...
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The federal government was not negligent in two 2006 immigration detainee deaths, but officials can do a better job overseeing detainees’ medical treatment, an...
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An Oregon man, given less than a year to live, had a complete remission of advanced deadly skin cancer after an experimental treatment that revved up his immune system...
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