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Health and wealth

The link between health and income seems pretty uncontroversial. After all, healthy people can work longer and harder than sick people. Healthier children are likely to stay in school longer and learn more, earning more when they enter the workforce. Even across countries the relationship seems clear: those with better health are generally richer, and those that improve their citizens’ health grow faster. So the conclusions of two recent papers that improving life expectancy at birth (a...

Basic Facts About Drugs: Marijuana

What is Marijuana? Call it pot, grass, weed, or any one of nearly 200 other names, marijuana is, by far, the world’s most commonly used illicit drug—and far more dangerous than most users realize. So, there is just cause for alarm when adolescent marijuana use increases, as it did in the mid-1990’s, and the age at which youngsters first experiment with pot starts to drops. Marijuana has been around for a long while. Its source, the hemp plant (cannabis sativa), was being c...

Water treatment method changes

The Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (WASD) will change its method of chlorination beginning Monday, and ending Nov. 16. Drinking water will be treated with free chlorine, instead of the combined chlorine (chloramine), which is normally used.

No Cutting Required in Weight-Loss Surgery Called Toga

On a recent Wednesday, Karleen Perez lay unconscious on an operating table in Upper Manhattan while her surgeons and two consultants from a medical device company peered at an overhead monitor that displayed images from inside her digestive tract.

Traveling for Care

In a new twist on medical tourism, U.S. employers are encouraging workers to travel domestically for medical care.

Breast Cancer

Two years ago, when she was nine, Jamie Margulies noticed a lump on the left side of her chest, behind her nipple. She was scared, since her mom had recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. "I thought that since she had breast cancer, I would definitely get it," says Jamie, a 6th-grader who lives in Gladwyne, Pa. To reassure her daughter, Jamie's mother took her to see her oncologist. The doctor examined her and set her mind at rest: The lump was not a cancer, but a breast bud -- a sign t...

How Long Will I Live? - Life Expectancy Calculator

Fill in the following form then click the button labeled "Calculate Life Expectancy". For values which you are unsure of, leave it blank or choose option 'don't know'; For zero values, enter "0", DO NOT leave them blank

Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is a non-profit medical practice. Its headquarters, the Mayo Medical School and its research facilities are in Rochester in addition to hospitals and clinics in Jacksonville, Florida and Scottsdale, Arizona. Mayo Clinic partners with a number of smaller clinics and hospitals in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, an organization known as the "Mayo Health System".