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Major depression and bipolar disorder; New treatments are on the horizon for serious depression

As director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program and associate professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Dan V. I…

Bath salts ban; Sen. Charles Schumer moves to ban drug sold under bath salts guise

Two drugs that produce a "meth-like" high and are being sold under the guise of "bath salts" would be banned as federally controlled substan…

Nealy 26 million Americans have diabetes: CDC

U.S. health officials have raised their estimate of how many Americans have diabetes to nearly 26 million or 8.3 percent of the population. The Centers for Dise…

Jenny McCarthy still isn't convinced.

The actress still firmly believes that vaccines are to blame for development of autism in children, despite last week's British Medical Journal article abou…
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Black and Latino seniors less likely to get flu shots than whites, study shows

Black and Latino seniors are less likely than whites to get the flu shot - even though they're at higher risk for chronic diseases that make the vaccine cru…