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How a Healthy Diet Could Benefit Your Lungs

As if boosting heart health and cutting cancer risk weren't good enough reasons to eat a healthy diet, new evidence suggests that chowing down on healthy fare may also help keep your lungs healthy.

Check Your ZZZs Against New Recommendations

Like food, water and oxygen, sleep is something you just can’t do without — but are you getting enough?

Yanhee Slim Contains Hidden Drug Ingredient

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers not to purchase or use Yanhee Slim, a product promoted and sold for weight loss on various websites.

A Daily Pill to Avoid Heart Disease: Worth the Hassle?

Imagine there was a daily pill that could prevent heart disease. Would you take it every day, or would you opt out? Some people said they would opt out — even if it meant losing months or years of life.

Some Surgery Patients Boomerang Back to Hospital

Surgical complications could make some patients boomerang back to the hospital. And health care professionals are working to improve care for these patients.

Alcon Receives FDA Approval of Pazeo Solution for Ocular Allergy Itch Relief

Alcon, the global leader in eye care and a division of Novartis, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Pazeo™ (olopatadine hydrochloride ophthalmic solution) 0.7%, for the treatment of ocular itching associated with allergic conjunctivitis.

This Test May Stop Unneeded Lymph Node Surgery

Although they may at the time be cancer-free, some breast cancer patients have their lymph nodes removed to ensure the cancer doesn't come back and spread. That surgery, however, may not always be needed. Ultrasound may play a role in avoiding unnecessary lymph surgery.

What May Be Keeping Your Teen up at Night

For many teens, it's second nature to reach for the smartphone or tablet when they have a spare minute or two. Those spare minutes can add up, though, and may affect teens' sleep quality.

Type 2 Diabetes Combo Rx Approved

The US Food and Drug Administration today approved a medication that combines two common type 2 diabetes treatments.

FDA Expands Uses of Vyvanse to Treat Binge-Eating Disorder

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approved uses of Vyvanse (lisdexamfetamine dimesylate) to treat binge-eating disorder in adults. The drug is the first FDA-approved medication to treat this condition.

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