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No surgery required: Study says tiny wireless pacemaker OK; doctors reluctant to use it widely

LONDON — A tiny, wireless pacemaker could offer some heart patients a surgery-free alternative to the traditional devices, a new …

Experimental Ebola vaccine could stop virus in West Africa

LONDON — An experimental Ebola vaccine tested on thousands of people in Guinea seems to work and might help shut …

Doctors warn against dangers of skinny jeans after woman becomes fashion victim: Don’t squat

LONDON — Attention wearers of skinny jeans: don’t squat — at least not for long. Doctors in Australia report that …

Struggle to explain what motivated the co-pilot in doomed flight

LONDON – A disgruntled worker shoots up a workplace. A student opens fire at a high school. A pilot crashes …

UN: World eating too much sugar; cut to 5-10 percent of diet

LONDON — Put down the doughnut. And while you’re at it, skip the breakfast cereal, fruit juice, beer and ketchup. …

UK to decide if it’s OK to make babies from DNA of 3 people

LONDON — British lawmakers will vote Tuesday on whether to let scientists use controversial techniques to create babies from the …

Tide turning in Ebola fight after hard lessons

DAKAR, Senegal — A top U.N. official in the fight against Ebola greeted just three patients at one treatment center …

Medical first: Baby born to woman who got new womb

LONDON — In a medical first, a woman in Sweden has given birth after receiving a womb transplant, the doctor …

As world leaders pledge aid, delays mean Ebola clinics must turn sick away

MONROVIA, Liberia—Fourteen-year-old D.J. Mulbah set off at dawn with his mother and grandmother in desperate pursuit of a coveted bed …

Ebola health workers battle death, heat, rumors

LONDON — Doctors and nurses fighting Ebola in West Africa are working 14-hour days, seven days a week, wearing head-to-toe …

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