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Cocaine effects are extremely detrimental on the body and the consequences related to cocaine effects can eventually lead to permanent damage, addiction and death. While each person who uses this drug reacts to it differently, there are two distinct categories[...]

The link between health and income seems pretty uncontroversial. After all, healthy people can work longer and harder than sick people. Healthier children are likely to stay in school longer and learn more, earning more when they enter the workforce.[...]

What is Marijuana? Call it pot, grass, weed, or any one of nearly 200 other names, marijuana is, by far, the world’s most commonly used illicit drug—and far more dangerous than most users realize. So, there is just cause for alarm when adolescent[...]

The Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (WASD) will change its method of chlorination beginning Monday, and ending Nov. 16. Drinking water will be treated with free chlorine, instead of the combined chlorine (chloramine), which is normally used.

On a recent Wednesday, Karleen Perez lay unconscious on an operating table in Upper Manhattan while her surgeons and two consultants from a medical device company peered at an overhead monitor that displayed images from inside her digestive tract.

In a new twist on medical tourism, U.S. employers are encouraging workers to travel domestically for medical care.

Two years ago, when she was nine, Jamie Margulies noticed a lump on the left side of her chest, behind her nipple. She was scared, since her mom had recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. "I thought that since she had breast cancer, I would definitely[...]

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Mayo Clinic is a non-profit medical practice. Its headquarters, the Mayo Medical School and its research facilities are in Rochester in addition to hospitals and clinics in Jacksonville, Florida and Scottsdale, Arizona. Mayo Clinic partners with a number[...]