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The government shutdown affects 12,800 healthcare center beds across 32 states, primarily affecting senior citizens and Medicare patients.

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President Donald Trump announced he is ordering the U.S. to resume nuclear testing, leaving experts wondering what this would ...

Federal regulators are trying to make it easier to develop cheaper alternatives to powerful drugs that many Americans depend ...

Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.

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If you flew at this major Northeast transit hub, you may have been exposed to measles — and you may be infected and not even know it.

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Actress Suzanne Rogers, best known for playing Maggie Horton on the daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” announced she was been diagnosed with Stage II colorectal cancer earlier this year.