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Taylor Swift breaks Michael Jackson's American Music Awards record

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

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

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

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

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

Trump reportedly reverses course on vaping ban

Chinese hunter diagnosed with bubonic plague after eating wild hare

Bubonic plague China hunter rabbit

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Googling health symptoms is problematic, but many Americans still do it

Googling health symptoms online

These habits can increase the risk of birth defects

Habits that increase the risk of birth defects

Researchers discover new HIV strain, first in nearly 20 years

New HIV strain discovered

When caring for a sick spouse shakes a marriage to the core

Caregiving marriage

Flavor bans multiply, but menthol continues to divide

Smoking linked to increased risk of depression, schizophrenia

Smoking linked to increased risk of depression, schizophrenia

Lots of people received nine-month-old Valentine's Day texts overnight. Did you?

Valentine's Day texts 2019

Getting enough sleep is crucial to people with chronic diseases

Sleep deprivation and chronic diseases

Women with diabetes are less likely to get cancer screenings, study finds

Women with diabetes are less likely to get screened for cancer

Children's Health

Childhood trauma leads to poorer health as adults, CDC analysis finds

Earwax removal: How to safely clean your ears

Children's Health

Exposure to pollution may cause your child to have a smaller brain, study says

Pollution ADHD brain development

Children's Health

More research shows benefits of bariatric surgery for obese teens with type 2 diabetes

Bariatric diabetes

FDA keeps brand-name drugs on a fast path to market – despite manufacturing concerns

Most high school vapers prefer Juul e-cigarettes

High school students prefer Juul e-cigarettes, survey finds

Four-day work week increased productivity by 40%, Microsoft says

Four-day work week productivity burnout

What's the difference between a headache and a migraine?

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Diabetes drug found to reduce symptoms of nicotine withdrawal

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