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Premature Delivery Raises Odds for Cerebral Palsy
Prescription Opioids, Antibiotics in Pregnancy Won't Raise Birth Defect Risk: Studies
Program Aims to Get Lifesaving Drugs to Kids With Cancer in Poorer Countries
Progress on Lung Cancer Drives Overall Decline in U.S. Cancer Deaths
Prostate Cancer Drug Could Be 'Game Changing,' Researchers Say
Prostate Cancer: The Basics Every Man Needs to Know
Protect Your Kids in Blistering Summer Heat
Put the Brakes on Driving After a Concussion
Quartz Countertops Are Damaging the Lungs of Installers: Study
Quitting Smoking Ups Survival After Lung Cancer Diagnosis
Radiation Plus Surgery May Be Best Against an Early Form of Breast Cancer
Radiation Rx for Prostate Cancer Can Cause Financial Pain: Study
Recall of Philips Breathing Machines Affects Millions of Americans
Reckless Driving on the Rise During COVID-19 Pandemic
Replace That Old Carpet to Shield Your Kids From Toxins
Report Finds World Ill-Prepared for Next Pandemic
Researchers Find Better Way to Fight Breast Cancer That Has Spread to Brain
Ridesharing Services May Be Lowering Drunk Driving Deaths
Ride-Sharing Services Tied to Rise in Car Crashes
Rise in U.K. COVID Cases Closely Watched by U.S. Health Officials
Safer Roadways Could Save 540,000 Lives a Year Worldwide
Science Shows Safest Plane Seating to Cut COVID Spread
Scientists Create First Lab Model of Human 'Pre-Embryo' for Research Purposes
Scientists Develop Quick Test for Marijuana Use
Scientists Test Safest Way Driver, Passengers Can Avoid COVID Spread
Screening Often Misses Endometrial Cancer in Black Women
Secondhand Smoke Can Raise Odds for Mouth, Throat Cancers
Severe COVID for People Under 45: Who's Most at Risk?
Severe Illness in a Child Takes Big Toll on Parents, Siblings: Study
Sharp Spike Seen in Air Pollution Levels in Recent Years
Shorter Course of Post-Op Radiation May Work Well for Prostate Cancer Patients
Shutting Down Nuclear Plants Could Cost Thousands of U.S. Lives as Pollutants Rise
Side Effects From New Cancer Meds Have Silver Lining
'Silent' COVID-19 More Widespread Than Thought
Smog Could Reduce Exercise's Benefit to Your Brain
Smog Harms Women's Brains, But One Food May Help Buffer the Damage
Smog Might Damage Your Sense of Smell
Smoggy Air Could Worsen COVID, Even If You're Vaccinated
Smoggy Air Might Help Spur Sinusitis
Smoggy Air Might Raise Black Women's Odds for Fibroids
Smoggy Day? Exercise Still the Healthy Choice, Study Finds
Smoggy Days Could Help Send Kids With Autism to the ER
Smoggy Days Raise Short-Term Odds for Stroke
Smoke From Canadian Wildfires Blackens Skies, Prompts Air Quality Alerts in Much of U.S.
Smoke From Canadian Wildfires Triggers Air Alerts in Colorado, Montana
Smoking in Pregnancy Has Declined by a Third Since 2016
Smoking Rates High Among Surgery Patients
Smoking Reduces Survival Odds After Bladder Cancer Surgery
Social Media Messages Can Lower People's Meat Intake
Some Myeloma Patients Get No Protection From COVID-19 Vaccines
Some Sick Patients Get Cosmetic Surgery to Boost Appearance
Some Types of Air Pollution Are Even Worse for Your Health
Some Young Cancer Survivors Won't Get Cancer-Preventing HPV Vaccine
Speeding on U.S. Roads Is Taking Thousands of Teenagers' Lives
Spotting Heart Defects While Baby Still in Womb Is Crucial, Study Shows
Statins Tied to Significantly Lower Death Rate From Ovarian Cancer
Stay Home This Holiday, CDC and Medical Groups Urge
Stress + Air Pollution a Bad Combo in Pregnancy: Study
Stuck in Traffic? Diesel Fumes May Be Harming Your Brain
Study Pinpoints Cancer Patients at Highest Risk From COVID
Study Zeroes in on How Zika Virus Is Passed From Mom to Fetus
Supplements: Many Cancer Patients Think They'll Help, But Experts Urge Caution
Supreme Court Curbs EPA's Authority Over Power Plant Emissions
Surgery Could Boost Survival for Women With Advanced Breast Cancers: Study
Surviving Childhood Cancer Can Take Toll on Adult Heart
Switch to Plant-Based Diet Could Protect Older Women's Brains
Take This Refresher on Skin Safety in Summer Sun
Targeted Drug Tagrisso Could Be Advance Against Lung Cancer
Targeted High-Dose Radiation Helps Fight Advanced Lung Cancer
Targeted Radiotherapy Might Help Men Battling Advanced Prostate Cancer
Teens Who Text While Driving May Take Other Risks Behind the Wheel
Teens With Autism and Driving: Often a Tough Discussion
Teens, Seniors Are Often Driving the Least Safe Cars
Testing Entire Genome Twice as Good at Spotting Genetic Disorders as Targeted Tests Are
The Future of Cancer for Americans
Therapeutic Vaccine Is Keeping Melanoma in Remission 4 Years On
There's Almost Nowhere in the World Free of Air Pollution
Think a Little Alcohol Might Be Healthy? Think Again
Tips for Making 2021 a Healthier Year
Tips to Checking Your Skin for Skin Cancer
Too Little Sunlight, Vitamin D May Raise Colon Cancer Risk
Too Many Antibiotics Might Raise Colon Cancer Risk
Too Much Restaurant Fare Could Shorten Your Life
Too Much Sitting Could Mean Worse Outcomes for Cancer Survivors
Too Often, Women Aren't Told of Sexual Side Effects of Cancer Treatments
Tough Decisions as COVID-19 Causes Cancer Surgery Delays
Tough Journeys: When Cancer Strikes People Living With Dementia
Toxic Lead Fallout From Notre Dame Fire May Be Worse Than Thought
Toxins in Wildfire Smoke May Make Their Way Into Brain
Train Wheels Send Unhealthy, 'Ultrafine' Metals Into Subway Air
Traveling Overseas? Follow This Health Checklist
Treating Depression Could Lengthen Lung Cancer Patients' Lives
Tree Rings Show Hurricanes Becoming Wetter, Longer, More Dangerous
Trials Show COVID Vaccines Well Worth It for Cancer Patients
Trouble Concentrating at Work? Your Office Air May Be to Blame
Tumors Have Their Own Bacterial Colonies That Could Guide Cancer Care
Two New Symptoms That Could Point to Pancreatic Cancer
U.S. Air Quality Got Better During Pandemic: Study
U.S. Airplane, Train and Transit Mask Mandates Extended to April 18
U.S. Cancer Screening Rates Back to Normal After Pandemic Dip
U.S. Cancer Survivors Now Number 18 Million
U.S. Deaths From Cancer Continue to Decline
U.S. Issues Toughest Travel Alert for Britain As COVID Cases There Climb
U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Rose in 2020, Even Though Driving Declined
U.S. Reopens Borders to Vaccinated Foreign Travelers
U.S. Roadway Deaths Marked Small Decline in 2022
U.S. Spends More on Cancer Than Any Other Country. Why Are Survival Rates Low?
U.S. to Be Removed From E.U. Safe Travel List
U.S. to Lift Travel Restrictions for Southern African Countries
U.S. to Require Negative COVID Test For Chinese Visitor Entry
U.S. to Screen Travelers From Uganda for Ebola Amid Outbreak in That Country
U.S. to Stick With International Travel Restrictions
U.S. Tourists in Northern Mexico Are Buying Counterfeit Pills Containing Fentanyl
U.S. Will Lift Restrictions on Fully Vaccinated International Travelers in November
Ukraine: The War on Cancer, Fought in a War Zone
Unvaccinated Should Not Travel This Labor Day Weekend: CDC
Urban Air Pollution Drives Millions of Cases of Asthma in Kids
Urinary Incontinence Surgery Won't Raise a Woman's Cancer Risk
VA Study Shows Black Men Twice as Likely to Develop Prostate Cancer as Whites
Vaccinated Americans Can Soon Visit the U.K. Without Quarantining
Vaccine Slows Return of Pancreatic Cancer in Early Trial
Vaping Can Trigger Gene Changes in Cells: Study
Vaping Just Once Triggers Dangerous 'Oxidative Stress'
Very Early-Stage Breast Cancer Ups Long-Term Odds for Invasive Tumors: Study
Vitamin D Might Help Prevent Early-Onset Colon Cancer
Want to Travel During the Pandemic? Here's What to Consider
Weed Killer Glyphosate Found in Most Americans' Urine
Weight Loss Can Help Cut Lung Risks in 9/11 First Responders
Weight-Loss Surgery Could Lower Women's Cancer Risk
Weight-Loss Surgery May Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk in People With Diabetes
Welcome to the 'Smart Toilet' That Can Spot Disease
Were Cancer Patients Neglected in U.S. COVID Vaccine Rollout?
West Coast Wildfires, COVID a Double Whammy to Lung Health
Western Wildfires Are Making Easterners Sick: U.S. Study
Western Wildfires Fueling Air Pollution During Summer Months
What If NYC's Cleaner Pandemic-Era Air Continued?
What You Need to Know About the New Variant of COVID-19
What You Need to Know About Your Colon Cancer Risk
When Booze Labels Carry Health Warnings, Drinking Declines: Study
When Cancer Strikes Those Under 40, Race Matters
When Cancer Strikes, Who's at Higher Risk for Suicide?
When Cardiac Arrest Strikes, Survival Odds Are Better at Airports
When Coal-Fired Power Plants Close, Kids With Asthma Breathe Easier
When COVID Strikes Cancer Patients, Men Fare Worse
When Heart Attack Strikes, Cancer Patients Often Miss Out on Lifesaving Treatment
Where Pot Became Legal, Car Crash Deaths Rose: Study
WHO Agency Declares Aspartame a Possible Carcinogen
Who's Most Likely to Join a Clinical Trial?
Why Are Cases of Pancreatic Cancer Rising in Young Women?
Why Are More U.S. Babies Being Born With Syphilis?
Why Do Black Men Still Fare Worse With Prostate Cancer?
Why Do Black Patients Fare Worse With Blood Cancer Than Whites?
Why Skin Cancer Checks Are Even More Important for Hispanic People
Why So Many New Cancer Diagnoses When Americans Turn 65?
Wildfire Smoke Can Send Kids With Asthma to the ER
Wildfire Smoke Can Trigger Eczema, Study Finds
Wildfire Smoke Causes Rapid Damage to Your Health: Study
Wildfire Smoke Could Cause More Than 9,000 U.S. Deaths Each Year
Wildfire Smoke Is Especially Toxic to Lungs, Study Shows
Wildfire Smoke Is Reversing Recent Clean-Air Gains Across the U.S.
Wildfire Smoke Pollution a Growing Global Threat
Wildfires Are Changing the Seasonal Air Quality of the U.S. West
Wildfires Cause More Than 33,000 Deaths Globally Each Year
Wildfires Plus Heat Make Breathing Dangerous in America's West
Wildfires Ravage Firefighters' Long-Term Physical, Mental Health
Will an Early-Stage Breast Cancer Spread? New Analysis Offers Some Answers
Will COVID Pandemic's Environmental Benefit Last?
Will Pot or CBD Make You a Worse Driver?
Wind Power Is Bringing Americans Real Health Benefits
With Holidays Ahead, COVID Boosters a Must for People With Weak Immune Systems
With Hurricane Season Here, Watch Out for One Carbon Monoxide Danger
With Pot Rules Relaxed, More U.S. Teens Driving While High: Study
Woman Dies From Dengue Fever Acquired in Florida
Women Are Much Safer Drivers Than Men, British Study Finds
Women More Likely to Survive Lung Cancer After Surgery: Study
Women Smokers Less Likely to Get Cancer Screenings
Women's Cancer Screenings Plummeted During Pandemic
Wood-Fired Cooking a Cause of Lung Illness in Developing World
You Can Help Prevent Cervical Cancer
You Don't Have to Be a Smoker to Get Lung Cancer
Young Cancer Survivors Vulnerable to COVID, But Often Shun Vaccine
Young, Immune-Compromised Patients Are Hotspots for Coronavirus Mutations: Study
Younger Age Doesn't Boost Survival With Advanced Colon Cancer
Your Plant-Based Diet Could Really Help the Planet
Your State's Laws Might Save Your Life If Breast Cancer Strikes
Zika Epidemic Was More Widespread Than Thought: Study
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