Doctors used to have poetic names for diseases. A physician would speak of consumption because the illness seemed to eat you from within
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Breast Pumping on Rise As Moms Choose Not to Breast-Feed
When Crystal Byrd’s second child was born, the doctors urged her to place her baby to her breast.
Morrissey resting after brief hospitalization
British singer Morrissey is following doctors’ instructions to rest after he collapsed Saturday during a concert and was briefly hospitalized, a message on his Web site said Monday.
A Healthier Way to Pay Doctors
Correction Appended: Oct. 19, 2009 It’s hard to feel sorry for America’s family doctors
From an icy slope, a medical miracle emerges
Fresh from medical school, Anna Bgenholm chose to do her residency in the Norwegian city of Narvik because of its spectacular mountain slopes. An expert skier, Bgenholm had gone off the trail with two other young doctors on a warm spring afternoon when she fell.
Animation confronts Gaza breast cancer taboo
The harsh reality of life and death in Gaza is a common theme for Palestinian filmmakers. But it was the 2004 death of a young Palestinian woman — not at the hands of a militant attack or an Israeli incursion — that struck a note with two filmmakers.
Affidavits: Anna Nicole Smith received many dangerous drugs
Doctors gave Anna Nicole Smith a long list of dangerous drugs over the three years before her death, including while she was pregnant, according to sworn statements by investigators from state agencies. Two doctors charged in connection with Smith’s death allegedly also crossed professional lines by having personal relationships with their patient, the court documents released Tuesday said.
Heart defect baby loses battle for life
A baby born with his heart protruding from his chest died two weeks after undergoing complex surgery to correct the problem, doctors said Thursday. “We have lost him,” said cardiothoracic surgeon A.K
Pancreatic cancer rare, very deadly
Pancreatic cancer is rare and extraordinarily lethal, experts say.
Indian teen loses leg after being tossed from train by police
Doctors had to amputate the leg of a 13-year-old snack vendor who was thrown off a moving train after he reportedly did not have money to bribe a guard, authorities said Sunday.