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Ketamine treatment alcohol abuse

Ketamine and behavioral therapy may help alcoholics regain sobriety

Hair dye and straightener may increase risk for breast cancer, study says

Hair dye breast cancer risk

Trader Joe's, 7-Eleven sushi recalled in Pa., N.J. over listeria fears

Fuji Sushi Recall

Health Insurance

HIV-preventing drug PrEP now free for the uninsured

Carroll - Truvada prescription

Three ongoing trials raise hope of an HIV vaccine

061216_HIVvaccine

A look at the crowdsourced #TwitterMomentsofTheDecade

Nearly 1 in 4 young adults have 'smartphone addiction,' study says

Smartphone addiction kids

'I feel like I'm in jail': Hospital alarms torment patients

Hospital alarms

Bad dreams may help you deal with your fear, study says

Bad dreams benefit emotions

Holiday TV guide: What to catch this December

Christmas holiday TV schedule

Children's Health

Treating HIV in the tiniest babies could have huge positive implications for their futures

World AIDs Day 2019

What's leaving Netflix in December: 'Frasier,' and all five 'Rocky' films

Netflix December list

President Trump roasted for tweet of himself as Philly icon Rocky Balboa

Trump Rocky

Trend continues of Americans dying younger, study shows

Life expectancy decrease midlife

Kevin Hart returns to 'Cold as Balls' with Chris Paul, Dennis Rodman, Erin Andrews

Kevin Hart CB

Bernie Sanders slow jams with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots

Bernie Sanders Jimmy Fallon

Man dies from severe infection after being licked by his dog

Man dies from dog licking

Taylor Swift breaks Michael Jackson's American Music Awards record

Taylor Swift AMAs Michael Jackson

Not yesterday's cocaine: Death toll rising from tainted drug

Cocaine Making a Comeback

Children's Health

Children continue to suffer more eye injuries from BB guns, pellet and paintball guns each year, study finds

eye injuries bb guns paintball pellet

Everything women need to know about menopause

menopause symptoms what to know

SNL highlights: Will Ferrell returns as English teacher going through a midlife crisis

Will Ferrell SNL Morgan Reynolds

Some smokers credit e-cigarettes with saving their lives – does that matter?

Vaping and e-cigarettes as smoking cessation tools

Children's Health

Fewer U.S. kids are drinking soda and other sweetened drinks

Soda consumption children

Teen develops lung injury related to vaping that resembles 'popcorn lung'

Teen popcorn lung vaping

Charles Barkley apologizes for 'unacceptable' comment to Axios reporter Alexi McCammond

Barkley Axios

Potential game-changing migraine medication passes large-scale clinical trial

Migraine drug research

Heart disease more prevalent in counties hit hardest by 2008 economic recession

Heart Recession

Chinese hunter diagnosed with bubonic plague after eating wild hare

Bubonic plague China hunter rabbit

Trump reportedly reverses course on vaping ban

Donald Trump vaping ban

Why you should take dry eye symptoms seriously

Dry Eye Syndrome Blindness

Harry Styles nails first hosting gig on 'Saturday Night Live'

Harry Styles host SNL

Cigarette smoking at lowest level in 55 years, but more adults are vaping

Cigarette smoking declining among American adults

To stop police shootings of people with mental health disabilities, I asked them what cops – and everyone – could do to help

Police Shootings Mental Health Disabilities

More vapers are making their own juice, but not without risks

DIY Vaping Danielle Jones Kaiser Health News

Former FDA adviser warns about dangers of LASIK surgery

LASIK Eye Surgery Dangers

More Americans are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at younger ages

World Diabetes Day

Still getting acne as an adult? There are ways to prevent it

Adult acne treatment options

Will Ferrell to host 'Saturday Night Live' for fifth time

Will Ferrell host SNL

Sending too many DMs can leave you with 'texting thumb'

Deep brain stimulation may offer a new tool to fight opioid addiction

WVU researchers use deep brain stimulation to treat patients with opioid use disorder

Cholesterol levels among U.S. adults are improving, but greater strides are needed

Cholesterol levels falling among U.S. adults

Anthrax could offer next frontier of bladder cancer treatment, researchers say

Anthrax Bladder Cancer

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