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Company efforts to stamp out tobacco often go up in smoke
Employers have long used financial penalties to try to push smokers to quit, but recent studies suggest these wellness programs…
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US survey finds smaller decline in medical bill worries
A big U.S. survey finds that a smaller proportion of people are in families struggling to pay medical bills By…
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2 Russians flee virus quarantine, in dismay at hospitals
MOSCOW — One patient jumped out of a hospital window to escape her quarantine and another managed to break out…
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2 patients in Russia with COVID-19 have fully recovered
Russian officials say two Chinese nationals hospitalized with COVID-19 in Russia last month have fully recovered from the disease and…
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China’s new virus cases fall again, deaths now exceed 1,100
China has reported another drop in the number of new cases of a viral infection and 97 more deaths, pushing…
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Japan confirms 39 new virus cases, 174 total on cruise ship
Japan’s health ministry says 39 new cases of a virus have been confirmed on the cruise ship that is quarantined…
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More than 2,400 fetuses found at Illinois home to be buried
In what’s sure to be a politically charged ceremony, more than 2,400 fetuses found last year at the suburban Chicago…
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Tenet Healthcare to pay $1.4M to settle cardiac lawsuit
Tenet Healthcare and its Southern California hospital Desert Regional Medical Center will pay $1.4 million to resolve allegations that it…
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WHO chief ‘very encouraged’ by dip in Congo Ebola cases
The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that experts are “very encouraged” after only three new cases of…
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Epilepsy treatment side effect: New insights about the brain
SEATTLE — Though Genette Hofmann is still using her brain, last month she donated a bit of it — to…
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