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| Wash Post Health
The Washington Post Health section provides coverage and analysis of health,healthcare,nutrition and fitness news,trends and policy. Post Health includes discussions and blogs about major health issues.
With their pinkish, translucent and wrinkly skin, double-saber buck teeth and black-bead eyes, naked mole rats look like characters in a nightmare from hell. In fact, they do live underground in pitch-dark burrows where their air, from a human point of view, can contain chokingly little oxygen, t...
Just about everyone agrees that the way we pay for primary care needs fixing. Under the current insurance model, doctors get paid for procedures and tests rather than for time spent with patients, which displeases doctors and patients alike and increases costs. Now some medical practices are side...
One night three years ago, Joe Hobson finished reading a book, went to sleep and woke up blind. The problem, caused by a rare hereditary disease, forced him to give up his 20-year communications job, along with its generous health insurance. Now 63, the Arlington man is covered by Medicare, the f...
Jennifer LaRue Huget offers some suggestions
How much fish and seafood should you eat each week? What are some good recipes?
Jennifer LaRue Huget explains how best to incorporate the new dietary guidelines on seafood into your diet.
Should they intervene early and practice a form of benign neglect, hoping that the baby fat will melt away as a child grows?
U.S. cases in those under 20 have grown from almost zero to tens of thousands in just over a decade.
Surgeon general says obesity crisis should be addressed together.
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