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New App Lets Patients Show Gratitude to Nurses, Doctors

A new free service has launched that  allows people to send notes of thanks to their doctors, nurses, and other health care workers via a website. UCSF...

Doctors Taking Medicinal Honey Seriously

The antibacterial properties of honey have long been known, both ancient Greek and Egyptian physicians are said to have valued it and it was...

Doctor Delivers Babies With Special Tradition Honoring the ‘Future Important Person’ (WATCH!)

Dr. Carey Andrew-Jaja, an obstetrician at Magee Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, has delivered many thousands of babies, but to him each one is special....

Doctors Diagnose Woman’s Stroke From a Selfie

  A selfie video that a 49-year-old Toronto-area woman took to show numbness and slurred speech she was experiencing, helped doctors to diagnose her as...
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Helped by TV Show ‘House’, Doctor Diagnoses Rare Condition

A German man with severe heart failure and a puzzling mix of symptoms including fever, blindness, deafness and enlarged lymph nodes that baffled doctors...
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Israeli Doctors Aid Syrians, Humanity Trumps Geopolitics

The 9-year-old Syrian boy with no legs wheeled himself down a bright hospital corridor, stopping to accept a pain pill from one nurse and...
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Alabama Doctor Walks Six Miles in Snow to Perform Brain Surgery

Many reports out of the southern U.S. this week hailed people who were performing kind deeds during the freak winter storm that paralyzed much...
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No. There Won’t Be a Doctor Shortage

In just over a decade the United States will need 130,000 more doctors than medical schools are producing. So says the Association of American...
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Boy’s Stuffed Wolf Stitched Up by Compassionate Doctor

A nine-year-old Colorado boy hugged his favorite plush toy last Friday at Memorial Hospital for Children in Colorado Springs where he would undergo treatment...
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After Doctors Said He Would Never Read, “Autistic” Boy Heads for Nobel Prize

Jacob Barnett didn't speak for years. Doctors declared that autism would keep him from ever doing simple tasks like reading or tying his own...
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Doctors Use 3-D Printer to Custom-design Implant for Baby

An infant who needed CPR every day often stopped breathing. Finally Kaiba's mother learned that her son had a rare obstruction in his lungs...
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Playing Tetris Video Game Fixes Lazy Eye, Doctors Say

Canadian doctors say they have found an inventive way to treat lazy eye - playing the Tetris video game. The McGill University team discovered...
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Doctor’s Orders: 20 Minutes Of Meditation Twice a Day

Integrative medicine regimens, including daily meditation, are being prescribed by doctors at hospitals and clinics across the country. Recent research has found that meditation can...
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Pakistani Doctor Jailed for Helping US Find bin Laden Named Congressional Hero

A Congressional resolution has been introduced in the US House of Representatives to recognize a Pakistani doctor, who helped CIA trace Osama bin Laden,...
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10 Cheap Ways to Avoid the Doctor

Prevention goes well beyond the mammograms, prostate screenings or blood tests at the doctor's office. It's the little steps you take every day that...
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Hair Transplant Doctor Revives Dead Boy After 3 Minutes of No Breathing

An 11-year-old boy, who had died in his mother's back seat on the way to the hospital after an asthma attack, was revived on...
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Test Allows Doctors to See Disease Without Microscope

Scientists in Britain say they have developed a super-sensitive test using nano-particles to spot markers for cancer or the AIDS virus in human blood...
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Heaven Is Real: A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife

As a neurosurgeon raised in a scientific household, Dr. Eben Alexander did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. "I understand what happens...
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UK Football Stampede Survivor and the Doctor Who Saved Him on the Pitch

Gary Currie was laid out on the ground, presumed dead, when fellow Liverpool supporter Dr. Glyn ­Phillips spotted him and spent 15 minutes performing...
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Young Doctor Saves Cyclist Pinned Under Limousine

On a sight-seeing trip with her family to Vancouver, Dr. Nas Rafi got to put her emergency-room skills to the test in a venue...