CDC investigates deadly bacteria’s link to doctors’ offices
The bacteria, C. difficile, is typically found in hospitals, but a study out Wednesday reports a substantial number of people contracted the bug who hadn’t been in a hospital, but…
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Finance Columnist Explains Why You Shouldn’t Pay Your Kids For Chores
A doctor, a politician, a humanitarian — there are many things parents may wish their children will become. But there’s one way no parent ever wants to describe their child:…
How Happiness Influences Our Health, In One Chart
Forget an apple a day when it comes to keeping the doctor away — try a smile a day. – More from Happify: Why Exercise Really Makes Us Happier Activities…
‘The Night Shift’ Dispenses a Familiar Prescription
Pity the ensemble hospital show trying to survive in the considerable shadow of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Since that ABC series — the first Shonda Rhimes hit — began in 2005, one…
How Hypochondriacs Say ‘I Love You’
Modern Love By NIKKI MOUSTAKI The evening I convinced my boyfriend that he had leprosy defined a moment in our relationship that I can best describe as glorious. Leprosy represented…
How Hypochondriacs Say ‘I Love You’
Modern Love By NIKKI MOUSTAKI The evening I convinced my boyfriend that he had leprosy defined a moment in our relationship that I can best describe as glorious. Leprosy represented…
Even consumers with health insurance get hit with surprisingly large medical bills
Adding insult to injury, insurers are not required to count out-of-network charges toward Obamacare’s annual limit on out-of-pocket expenses. Efforts by doctors, hospitals and other health providers to charge patients…
Chicago Doctor Makes House Calls In Dangerous Area He Grew Up In So Residents Can Receive Proper Care
A Chicago doctor returned to the neighborhood where he grew up to provide care to those who need it most. – “I was told many times, ‘Your grades aren’t high…
Genital Cutting Cases Seen More as Immigration Rises
DENVER — One immigrant woman told of visiting five gynecologists in recent months, each of whom gasped audibly at her anatomy. Another went to see a doctor, only to become…
Fit Nation: Weight loss Week 1 — the hiccups
They will go away. Well, Week one of the CNN Fit Nation Challenge has presented me with some hiccups. My hiccups started just before Christmas; my right knee started aching….
Hideyuki Noguchi Allegedly Poses As Doctor, Rapes At Least 39 Women In Fake Sleep Studies
A Japanese man is accused of drugging and raping dozens of women while posing as a doctor in a bogus sleep study, authorities said Tuesday. – Noguchi is not known…
Graham rebukes Paul on vaccines
“The statement of [Sen. Rand] Paul would create anxiety because he’s a doctor, he’s a respected senator and there is no evidence that I’m aware of that a vaccine causes…
The unvaccinated, by the numbers
Opponents of vaccines against diseases like measles are simply on the “wrong side,” CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta says. Just how many people are we talking about, and…
‘Back to the future’ medicine man turns frustration into big opportunity
The pioneering Kenyan doctor was just nine years old when a girl was rushed across the border from southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. A few years his senior, she was…
Botswana Doctor Is Named to Lead W.H.O. in Africa
A defining moment in the life of Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s new regional director for Africa, came when she was 9 and her father realized that her…
David Tennant Is Your New Marvel Villain In Netflix’s ‘Jessica Jones’
Doctor Who is your new Marvel villain. David Tennant, who played the 10th incarnation of the titular British doctor and starred in the original “Broadchurch,” has been cast in Netflix’s…
The First Thing To Do When You’re Facing The Unknown (VIDEO)
Life is full of scary unknowns: How will I cope when a loved one dies? Can I handle being a parent? What do I do if my doctor calls with…
Life of doctor shot at Boston hospital hangs in balance; suspect dead
Police got a call at around 11 a.m. ET that a doctor had been shot twice on Tuesday, according to Police Commissioner William Evans. “His colleagues got to him as…
8 Women On Why Roe v. Wade Has Mattered So Much To Them
Thursday marks the 42nd anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that affirmed women’s right to obtain a legal abortion. At that time,…
‘Doctor Who’ to remain on Netflix
Netflix confirmed on Friday that it’s renewed the contracts of several BBC shows, including several fan favorites. “Doctor Who” is among those that will remain available on the streaming service…
Netflix might lose ‘Doctor Who’ and other British shows
That would mean missing shows like “Little Britain” and the original “House of Cards.” Of course, the “Doctor Who” fans have already launched a petition to “save the show” on…
Turn signal lever stuck in Illinois man’s arm for 51 years
He was driving his tan Thunderbird to work one morning in July 1963 when he crashed, an accident so bad that the local radio station reported it as a fatality,…