In most
states, insurers charge older people much higher health insurance premiums than
their younger counterparts, a practice companies say is “an

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of the continuing series, “Are You Covered?” Kaiser Health News and
NPR profile Dave Koenig. He has a job with good benefits. Still, he thinks

Kazakhstan’s government said Tuesday it would impose a total ban on smoking in public places and raise the drinking age to 21, a rare step in the hard-drinking, heavy-smoking former Soviet Union.

Studies say experiments in stickleback fish have shown for the first time that the evolution of new sex chromosomes is the driving force behind the formation of a new vertebrate species.

A new book on the human brain offers fascinating insights on how emotions are higher in women than in men and why the fairer sex cry more than their male counterparts.

The European Commission on Tuesday cleared for distribution in Europe two new vaccines to fight a swine flu pandemic, amid fears about a second wave of the potentially deadly virus.

UCLA scientists have identified two chemicals that convince cells to ignore premature signals to stop producing important proteins. Published in the Sept.

The enzyme target of a drug group that stops the progression of the devastating disease Friedreich’s ataxia in mice has been pinpointed by a Scripps research team.

In a breakthrough discovery, researchers at McMaster University have revealed an ideal starting point to develop new interventions for resistant infections.

Hippocrates’ opinion on health and illness, that mind is significant in health and healing, is actually true, suggests a new research.

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