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If a national version of this bill is approved, terminally ill patients could try experimental treatments that have completed some testing but don’t yet have FDA approval.

What steps can people take to avoid the flu, aside from getting vaccinated? Wash hands frequently, stay away from sick people, and eat a healthy diet year round, say doctors.

'This epidemic can be traced to the defendants' false and deceptive marketing to doctors — and to the public — that these drugs were safe and effective,' says city solicitor.

Kristal Bush started her service, Bridging the Gap, in 2012. As a child, she went years without seeing her dad. Her mom didn’t have a car that could make it from Philly.

CDC recommends vaccination because it still may provide protection against an array of influenza viruses.

Psychosis is a set of experiences that relate to finding reality confusing or unclear. Not all people who experience it have schizophrenia.

Seven suicides among teens in Mercer County, New Jersey, have the county’s school superintendents calling for action.

For Katherine High, president and chief scientific officer at Spark Therapeutics, the drug’s approval signals renewed hope in the possibilities of gene therapy.

"We're trying to do the best that we can and see as many folks as we can in these last 48 hours,” said Patrick Keenan of the Pennsylvania Health Access Network.

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Flu season is off to an early start this year. Experts say it’s time to get a flu shot, if you haven’t already, because numbers could peak even more around the holidays.

One million people have end-stage heart failure in North America, and only about 2,400 transplants occur each year due to a lack of viable hearts.