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A critical drug that serves as the backbone of treatment for most childhood cancers, including leukemias, lymphomas and brain tumors, has become increasingly scarce, and doctors are warning that they may soon be forced to consider rationing doses. Persistent shortages...

KELOWNA, B.C. -- A British Columbia school board says it has "serious concerns" about the risk of vaping and is asking all levels of government to take action. In an example of how school districts are grappling with the new...

The Winston-Salem Police Department received a tip in June about elder abuse at the Danby House, an assisted living and memory-care facility, according to Fox 8. Police investigators and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services began looking...

Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, scrappy start-ups that share a penchant for superlatives and a commitment to protecting the environment, have dominated the relatively new market for vegetarian food that looks and tastes like meat. But with plant-based burgers, sausages...

It’s such a common routine in a doctor’s office or clinic or hospital that patients tend to comply without thinking: Step on the scale, roll up your sleeve for the blood pressure cuff, urinate into a cup. But that last...

EXPOSUREPoisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPontBy Robert Bilott with Tom Shroder Robert Bilott never set out to be anyone’s hero. He made his living defending chemical companies at an old-line corporate law firm based in...

Surgery to replace the cloudy lens with an artificial one can improve vision. While this is a fairly simple outpatient procedure — and one of the most common surgeries in the country — there are decisions to make and occasional...

Image Chinese women wearing masks to protect against pollution in Beijing in 2015. The government has made inroads against China’s pollution problem. CreditKevin Frayer/Getty Images BEIJING — Researchers in China have found a significant link between air pollution and the risk...

Paul Farrell, a West Virginia attorney driving a massive lawsuit against drug companies. (Maddie McGarvey/For The Washington Post) October 14 at 9:08 AM HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Paul Farrell, Jr. was looking through the West Virginia Code a few years ago...