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Although it is considered to be a childhood disease, many adults are contracting asthma at an older age. Hear from medical experts.

Threat of a terrorist strike against a nuclear power plant led the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to supply potassium iodide, or KI, to people at risk.

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Analyzes the allegations that antiperspirants may cause breast cancer and that tampons contain asbestos, dioxins and rayon.

Homepage of the Kaiser Family Foundation provides a nonpartisan resource for medical and health-care issues. Watch the daily HealthCast.

Research shows that busier hospitals give prostate-cancer surgery patients a better chance of survival than slower, low-volume hospitals.

Read about a study that says ibuprofen, or Advil, halts aspirin's pleasant side effect of thinning blood and preventing clots.

Food and Drug Administration approved a contraceptive IUD device known as Mirena. Find out how it works.

Read an article that questions whether pickle juice can prevent dehydration the way many trainers say it can.

October 19, 2000 article reports an FDA panel's finding that phenyl-propanolamine (PPA) increases the risk of stroke in some users.

Take a look at the 2000 list of the nation's top 100 hospitals, according to HCIA-Sachs Institute.

Recent study says that risks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome are higher in day care settings. Find a list of SIDS precautions.

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