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Amy Bies was recovering in the hospital from injuries inflicted during a car accident in May 2007 when routine laboratory tests showed that her blood glucose and cholesterol were both dangerously high ...

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Victor Sung, M.D., director of the Division of Movement Disorders in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology and director of the UAB Huntington’s Disease Clinic, reacted to the ...

Though some researchers believe it should be labeled endemic in the United States, most Americans don’t need to worry about getting sick. By Simar Bajaj Perhaps you’ve seen the “kissing bug” disease ...

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