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Can harvesting young blood help the aging process?

by David Brancaccio
Jul 24, 2017
At least two companies have started doing human trials.
William Hartnell (1908 - 1975, center) stars as the doctor alongside Dracula and Frankenstein's monster in "The Chase," an episode of the long-running television series "Doctor Who."
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Study: Less-educated white people face alarming mortality increases

by Mark Garrison
Mar 23, 2017
There's an alarming increase in suicides among less-educated Americans, the Brookings Institution reports.
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When is it a good time to go to the hospital? When the doctors are being watched

by Dan Gorenstein
Mar 21, 2017
Want to know when it’s a good time to go to the hospital? Seems it’s when the doctors are being watched. Every few years the accrediting agency known as the Joint Commission conducts random hospital inspections. A new study out in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine finds that mortality rates drop when the inspectors show […]
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U.S. death rate increases for the first time in a decade

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 1, 2016
A spike in white mortality could be driving this larger death trend.
This is one of just a few times in the past 25 years the death rate has gone up.
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