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Quest: Repairing More Hearts With Implanted Pumps

When it comes to hearts, Taneal Wilson won the lottery. A small pump implanted to keep the 31-year-old alive long enough for a heart transplant somehow helped Wilson's ravaged heart completely recover ...

Trainer Uses Boxing, Other Unusual Moves to Help Parkinson's Patients

Boxing, along with other exercises like jogging, crunches and medicine-ball tosses, helps fight those symptoms and keep muscles strong, Marks said. Even though his Parkinson's clients hit punching bags and not each other, ...

CDC: Mississippi Still Nation's Fattest State

Mississippi has had the highest obesity rate every year since 2004. But Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia and Louisiana have also clustered near the top of the list, officials claim.

Physical Fitness May Slow Alzheimer Brain Atrophy

Getting a lot of exercise may help slow brain shrinkage in people with early Alzheimer's disease, a preliminary study suggests. Analysis found that participants who were more physically fit had less brain shrinkage than ...

AMA Apologizes to Black Doctors for Past Racism

The American Medical Association on Thursday issued a formal apology for more than a century of discriminatory policies that excluded blacks from participating in a group long considered the voice of U.S. doctors.