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Health insurance premiums in the 39 states that use HealthCare.gov will fall 1.5 percent on average for the most commonly purchased plans in 2019, marking the first time that rates have dropped since the 2010 health care law was implemented.

The decline is a significant departure from steep increases in 2017 and 2018. Premiums for HealthCare....Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have been a pretty regular blood donor for decades. At times, I'm rejected because I just miss the minimum iron count necessary. My question at this time is if I should continue to be a blood donor, as I am 84 years of age. My health is excellent, and I'm not taking any medications for any ailments. I have no blood pressure ...Read more

In 2012, an Oregon woman who sued her date for giving her genital herpes won $900,000. And one tycoon allegedly paid $52 million for giving chlamydia to his mistress. It seems sexually transmitted diseases are a growth industry for lawyers! Perhaps that's because nearly 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were diagnosed in the...Read more

Several herbal remedies have been studied as a treatment for anxiety, but more research is needed to understand the risks and benefits. Here's what we know -- and don't know:

-- Kava

Kava appeared to be a promising treatment for anxiety, but reports of serious liver damage -- even with short-term use -- caused the Food and Drug Administration ...Read more

Treating breast cancer has long involved addressing two problems: the elimination of cancer cells from the tumor and potential disease recurrence. The key may be to harness the full capabilities of the body's immune system to do both jobs.

On Mayo Clinic's Florida campus, a team of researchers has a new anti-cancer vaccine in the works to help ...Read more

In 2016, more than a quarter-million people worldwide died from firearm-related injuries, according to a new study published in the JAMA Network. The good news is that the global death rate from guns has decreased a bit less than 1 percent per year since 1990. The bad news is that half of all 2016 firearm deaths occurred in just six countries ...Read more

If you've ever been to a Cleveland Indians home baseball game, chances are about 100 percent that you've heard a tom-tom drum echoing from the top bleacher seats. The drummer is a guy named John Adams, a retired AT&T worker who, besides attending home games since 1973, co-teaches a graduate level course at Cleveland State University on aquatics ...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a female in my mid-60s and recently have been diagnosed with a cyst on my left kidney. I do not have diabetes nor a heart condition, never smoked nor used drugs, don't drink and take over-the-counter or prescription medicines only when absolutely necessary, which is rare. I also don't like, thus never eat, spicy foods, nor ...Read more

WASHINGTON-- Numerous Republicans who are supporting attempts to dismantle Obamacare are simultaneously campaigning for election on their support for a core provision of the law.

The GOP spent the eight years since the Affordable Care Act was passed attempting to derail it in Congress, the White House and the courts. But those efforts have ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats are planning to force a vote this week on a resolution that would overturn the Trump administration's expansion of short-term health insurance plans.

Critics call them "junk" plans, since they're not required to comply with all the regulations of the 2010 health care law.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin introduced a ...Read more

Are you worried about how much you worry? Bravo.

Uncontrolled anxiety is a giant obstacle to personal happiness. No surprise. Worry causes stress, and stress saps our strength, disturbs our sleep, fries our brain and constantly undermines our best efforts to stay healthy, relaxed and optimistic.

And yet there's so much to worry about these ...Read more

Written by Sting (he credits his infant son at the time with the lyrics: "I've never paid him, so that's another possible lawsuit"), "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da (Is all I want to say to you)" actually might be expressive enough to raise a child's IQ by an average of 14 to 27 percent. That's according to a recent study published in Pediatrics, the ...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm 95 years old and was wondering if it would be advisable to have cataract surgery at my age. I had a cataract removed from my left eye, and it was very successful. My eye doctor said I have a condition known as pseudoexfoliation in my right eye, in addition to the cataract. -- S.D.

ANSWER: Surgery shouldn't be undertaken ...Read more

California's pet insurance regulations, which experts peg as the strictest in the country, owe their existence to a dearly departed golden retriever named Bodie.

It was Bodie's death more than a decade ago from blood cancer, and his owner's subsequent tussle with a pet insurance company for reimbursement of medical expenses, that led to the ...Read more

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified three specific gene types that account for a known two-to-three-fold increase in myeloma diagnoses among African-Americans. Researchers also demonstrated the ability to study race and racial admixture more accurately using DNA analysis. The findings were published in Blood Cancer ...Read more

Want to make a toast to your health? Just stick to drinking three or fewer times a week. On the heels of a slew of studies suggesting that even moderate drinking may be hazardous to your health, there is new research that suggests that drinking three times a week may be the cutoff.

Conducted by the Washington University School of Medicine in St...Read more