Patients were 46 percent more likely than after general surgery to take painkillers a year later

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Avoiding food-borne illness

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Pediatricians' group updates infection-prevention guidelines for medical offices

Life span about three years less than for whites, heart association statement says

EPA moves likely cut cases of lung and bladder cancer

Helped with chemo-linked nausea, epilepsy, but no evidence for other conditions