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Visiting a 'Dental Fear' Clinic Can Help Improve a Child's Smile
Vitamin D Could Help Extend Your Life: Study
Vitamin D Might Aid Seniors' Recovery From Hip Fracture: Study
Vitamin D Supplements Won't Help Your Bones, Large Study Finds
Vitamin D: Good for Your Health, It Might Even Fight COVID-19
'Walking Miracles': Born With Lungs Reversed, They Suffered Until Getting Double-Organ Transplants
Want Fewer Fractures in Nursing Homes? Put More Dairy on the Menu
Watch Their Backs -- Don't Overload Those Schoolbags
Weaker Bones, Weakening Brain? Study Makes the Connection
Weather and Arthritis: Is There Really a Connection?
Weight Loss Surgery a Good Option for Severely Obese Kids: Study
Weight-Loss Surgery Has Long-Term Benefits for Pain, Mobility
Weight-Loss Surgery Lengthens Life Span, Study Shows
Weight-Loss Surgery Lowers Long-Term Heart Risks for Diabetic Teens
What Anesthesia Works Best for Hip Fracture Surgery?
What Are Back Spasms, and Can They Be Treated?
What Are Hernias, and How Are They Treated?
What Arthritis Surgeries Help With Pain and Other Symptoms?
What Do You Know About Your Risk for Hernia?
What Is Endometriosis, and How Is It Treated?
What Jobs Are Toughest on the Knees?
What Type of Stent Did I Get, Where? Most Heart Patients Don't Know
What Works Best to Ease Migraines?
What You Need to Know About Stomach Cancer
What You Should Know If Your Surgery Has Been Put on Hold
What's the Best 'Uterine-Sparing' Treatment for Fibroids?
'What's Wrong With Me?' Young COVID Survivors Battle Long-Haul Symptoms
When COVID-19 Strikes in Pregnancy, C-Section Tied to Worse Outcomes
When Is It Time for a Knee Replacement?
When Pot Is Legal, Prescriptions for Pain, Depression, Anxiety and Sleep Drop: Study
When Removing a Big Kidney Stone, Get the Little Ones, Too
Which Exercise Regimen Works Best to Ease Lower Back Pain?
Which Surgery Works Best for Lower Back Pain?
White Men's Grip on U.S. Health Care May Be Slipping
White Women Tend to Get Better Pain Management After Childbirth
Who Is Using Herbal Kratom?
Why Adding on a Few Pounds as You Age Might Be Good for You
Woman With Severe COVID-19 Gets Life Saving Double-Lung Transplant
Women Get Help Later Than Men When Heart Attack Strikes
Women Have Poorer Survival Than Men After Bypass Surgery
Women More Likely to Survive Lung Cancer After Surgery: Study
Working From Home Brings Its Own Health Perils: Survey
Working From Home? Posture, Ergonomics Can Make It Safe
Your Expectations Could Shape Your Odds for Vaccine Side Effects
Your Hospital Room Could Affect Outcomes After Surgery
You've Had Foot Surgery: How Long Until You're Active Again?
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