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(MedPage Today) -- The practice of allowing a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their lives with medication has been legalized in recent years in several countries across the world. In the U.S., New York and Illinois recently became the...
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Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) is set to perform a rare heart surgery on 11 patients in a procedure being introduced for the first time in a public hospital in Kenya.
NASCAR legend Darrell Waltrip has been diagnosed Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD), with his family announcing that he will be stepping further away from public life.
(MedPage Today) -- John Gaitanis, MD, who was recently appointed the new chair of the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), co-founded a company that provides leucovorin to…
A genetic testing program that helps rule out a stem-cell donor due to a genetic risk for developing leukemia was pioneered in the Maritimes, and is helping to improve cancer care.
(MedPage Today) -- Congo is running short of health workers to staff treatment centers for history's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak, particularly in the eastern province of North Kivu where cases have…
A study of how cells repair radiation-induced genetic damage offers clues to why some people develop cancer early in life or more than once.
