Free in-home kits help encourage STD testing in young people

Free in-home kits help encourage STD testing in young people

Up to half of sexually active young people will get a sexually transmitted disease by the time they are 25, yet many don't seek testing because it may be difficult, costly or embarrassing.

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Supreme Court shields vaccine makers from lawsuits

Supreme Court shields vaccine makers from lawsuits

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday shielded the nation's vaccine makers from being sued by parents who say their children...

Study sees no link between vitamin D, diabetes

Study sees no link between vitamin D, diabetes

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Low levels of vitamin D don't put older women at greater risk for type 2 diabetes, a large study of U.S. women...

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Could more IVF attempts really mean more success?

Could more IVF attempts really mean more success?

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Researchers say couples trying to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IVF) could up their chances of...

Transplant From A Friend: She Saved His Life, But Did He Also Save Hers?

Transplant from a friend: She saved his life, but did he also save hers?

Annette Chionilos kept hearing it over and over again, a torrent of "you're crazy," mixed with "have you thought about this?" and...

Medicine pursues a mind-heart connection

Medicine pursues a mind-heart connection

The melancholy mind and the broken heart: For poets and philosophers through the ages, the two have been fellow travelers, chicken and egg,...

In breast cancer treatment, less underarm lymph-node removal may be better

In breast cancer treatment, less underarm lymph-node removal may be better

Sometimes less is more in breast cancer treatment; so says a study that made headlines earlier this month: The finding, published in the...

A cardiac-crisis survivor's story

From an early age, congenital heart problems have given Bruce Lowen a will to survive that drew open admiration from his doctors and...

Off-the-shelf blood vessels

Off-the-shelf blood vessels

Heart bypass patients may soon be able to get new arteries without having to sacrifice vessels from other parts of their body, thanks to...