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Questions & answers about increasingly popular robot surgery: Is it always the best choice?

CHICAGO - Robotic surgery is being done more and more often for a variety of operations. But experts say there's a lack of strong evidence that it's any better than standard surgery in most cases — and it's usually costlier.

FDA approves return of treatment for morning sickness, decades after false alarm over safety

WASHINGTON - Talk about a comeback: A treatment pulled off the market 30 years ago has won Food and Drug Administration approval again as the only drug specifically designated to treat morning sickness.
Colorado baby born with lung cyst doing fine 5 months after exit procedure saved her life

Colorado baby born with lung cyst doing fine 5 months after exit procedure saved her life

DENVER - Lake Annabelle Hall wouldn't be alive today if doctors at Children's Hospital of Colorado hadn't operated on a cyst on her left lung before she was born.

Robot wows surgeons, but freak episodes include robot hand that won't let go, arm that hits

CHICAGO - The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year — triple the number just four years earlier.

Your Good Health: Liver cirrhosis

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FDA approves return of treatment for morning sickness, decades after false alarm over safety

WASHINGTON - Talk about a comeback: A treatment pulled off the market 30 years ago has won Food and Drug Administration approval again as the only drug specifically designated to treat morning sickness.
Tetanus: How you catch it and why you really want to avoid infection

Tetanus: How you catch it and why you really want to avoid infection

TORONTO - You do not want to get infected with tetanus. The disease, which used to kill about 40 to 50 Canadians a year in the 1920s and '30s, is now only rarely reported. In recent years, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ has seen, on average, only a couple of cases a year.

Too many beeping hospital alarms linked with dozens of deaths in a new Joint Commission report

CHICAGO - Constantly beeping alarms from devices that monitor the vital signs of the critically ill have "desensitized" hospital workers who sometimes ignore the noise, leading to at least two dozen deaths a year on average, a hospital accrediting gr
Dengue fever cases may be nearly 4 times more common than thought, but most are mild

Dengue fever cases may be nearly 4 times more common than thought, but most are mild

LONDON - There may be nearly four times as many people infected with the tropical disease dengue globally than was previously believed, according to a new study.

Medical system in northern sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ 'systematically helps people die,' critics say

Jackie Inyallie didn't have to die, her family says, in fact they add the 24-year-old woman's injuries should have been considered "non-life threatening.