Public health officials on a state and local level should determine where and how antibiotics for anthrax should be stored in their communities in the event of a large-scale anthrax attack, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.
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Contraceptives, sterilization and reproductive education should be covered by health insurance plans with no cost to patients under the health care reform law, a new report recommends.
For two years after a hip surgery that didn't work out as well as he'd hoped, pain shot down Jim Heckler's leg like electrical shocks. Several doctors, eager to help Heckler feel better, prescribed various narcotic painkillers.
People who eat more sodium and less potassium may die sooner of heart or other problems than people who consume the opposite, a large, 15-year-study has found.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains the USDA's new dietary guidelines, which include limiting sodium intake.
Chef Domenica Catelli explains how you may be serving your family foods that pack on the pounds without knowing it.
A 4-year-old lumbered into a Boston pediatric clinic. He walked with a limp.
New research suggests a high-calorie, high-protein diet may improve the outcome for some service members with brain injuries due to battlefield explosions.
Are vitamin D, calcium and magnesium effective in preventing type 2 diabetes? If so, how much should one take?
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes a look at how the repeal of health care reform would affect you.
My patient one day, a spry 80-year-old, started to cough and feel short of breath during a blood transfusion: classic signs of a transfusion reaction. I stopped her IV, but she needed a steroid to bring her breathing back to normal.
Vitamin D and calcium have long been touted as the best nutrients for strong bones, muscles and teeth. Recent studies have shown that vitamin D could be used to fight cancer, heart ailments, autoimmune diseases, even diabetes.
Elizabeth Cohen explains recent studies detailing how much vitamin D and calcium you need for the right balance.
How much vitamin D is recommended for those over 55?
Forget diet pills and cleanses. A new study suggests that an effective weight-loss aid is available straight from your kitchen sink.
Americans love salt. And we eat too much of it. So much so that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is thinking about limiting the amount of sodium in packaged foods.
Salt, a staple in most food, could soon be regulated if the Institute of Medicine has its way.
In this day and age of food-on-the-go, supplements can add much-needed nutrients to your diet. But a walk down the vitamin aisle at any store could very well make your head spin. Here's a breakdown of several of multivitamin options.
An advisory panel is recommending a major step up in protection for health workers dealing with patients suspected or confirmed to have H1N1 influenza.
Imagine you're about to travel to a foreign land. You've heard it can be a mighty dangerous place, but you have to go there -- you have no choice. You don't know exactly where the threats lurk, and you don't speak the language. Wouldn't it be nice to have a guide?
Even if the low-carb diet craze ended up being a bit of a bust, the attention it focused on protein is a good thing. Researchers are taking a closer look at this often ignored nutrient and discovering its hidden health potential.
Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday
If your water bottle travels with you everywhere, sip on this thought: Drinking water isn't the only way to stay hydrated.
CNN's Sunny Hostin talks about parents who are trying to show a link between vaccines and autism.
New research linking low vitamin D levels with deaths from heart disease and other causes bolsters mounting evidence about the "sunshine" vitamin's role in good health
Testimony resumed Monday in a long-running case involving thousands of children with autism that their parents contend was triggered by an early childhood vaccination.
Attorneys will attempt to show that vaccines with the thimerosal preservative triggers symptoms of autism
Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care
It's the sort of promotion you might expect from a pizza delivery chain, not a U.S. hospital system.
There's one word that never fails to raise the blood pressure of my friends in business: unions. In the minds of many executives, organized labor is the archenemy of the basic prerequisites for bus...
It's midmorning in late October, and Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn is already frenetic. On the fifth floor Dr. Victor Guadagnino, a private-practice physician, checks lab reports at a compu...
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