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Increasingly, amputees who have already lost limbs are going to their doctors to ask them to remove more . The choice, which the New York Times calls "once unthinkable," comes as artificial limbs are...

Canada has approved the world's first stem cell treatment for a systemic disease, Reuters reports. This week, the nation's health regulators allowed doctors to use the drug Prochymal for children with...

Some parents help pay for their kids' college tuition—others help foot the bill for freezing their daughters eggs? Apparently. The New York Times reports on what it paints as a growing trend:...

The upper Midwest is home to the latest craze in American mining: sand. Mining companies are knocking on doors in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and nearby states to dig up tons of the stuff so oil and gas...

SATURDAY, May 19 (HealthDay News) -- More than 4.7 million Americans are bitten by dogs each year, and more than half of those victims are younger than age 14, experts say. During National Dog Bite...

Want to lose weight, but can't bear to give up french fries? Well, there might be a "diet" of sorts that lets you indulge—provided you do it early. A new study has found that eating early, and then...

A young Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacteria has learned she will lose her hands and remaining foot , and responded by saying, "Let's do this." Her father recounted the conversation in an...

Attention snackers: When you eat may matter as much as what you're munching. Researchers gave two groups of mice a fatty diet, with a key difference: Members of one group were allowed to eat when they...

Source: American Academy of Dermatology Related MedlinePlus Page: Skin Cancer

Source: American Academy of Dermatology Related MedlinePlus Pages: Skin Cancer, Sun Exposure