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Low birth rate in the US, explained

Kimberly Holland - Healthline
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What are the chances you’ll live to 90?

Ann Pietrangelo - Healthline
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Is your personality healthy?

Cathy Cassata - Healthline
FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, file photo, soft drink and soda bottles are displayed in a refrigerator at El Ahorro market in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) (AP)

This food additive is making you tired

Brian Mastroianni - Healthline
A nurse prepares a flu shot. (AP/David Goldman)

2019's effective flu vaccine

Shawn Radcliffe - Healthline
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A new vaccine for celiac disease

Bob Curley - Healthline
This undated combination provided by Hologic shows an image taken using conventional mammography, left, and an image using a 3D mammography, right, with a tumor circled that wasn’t visible on the first image. A large study that was published Tuesday, June 24, 2014, in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that adding breast screening with 3D imaging to conventional digital mammograms is slightly better at finding cancer than regular scans alone, with fewer false alarms. (AP Photo/Courtesy Hologic) (AP)

Should some women get mammograms at 30?

Elizabeth Pratt - Healthline
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Opioids after surgery: Where do they go?

Brian Krans - Healthline
This Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 photo shows the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, displayed on a laptop computer screen in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Deadline for Obamacare sign up: Dec 15

Cathy Cassata - Healthline
The Hendrickson-Craig family. (Image via Samitha Hendrickson/Healthline)

They had insurance. Their baby didn't.

Stephanie Booth - Healthline
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Air pollution linked with autism risk

George Citroner - Healthline
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Alternative treatments can't beat cancer

Christopher Curley - Healthline
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Obamacare robocall a scam and illegal

Christopher Curley - Healthline
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A new crisis in the opioid epidemic

Christopher Curley - Healthline
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New study links cannabis to brain aging

Gigen Mammoser - Healthline
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What can you do about insulin prices?

Ginger Vieira - Healthline
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Is the hospital overcharging you?

Stephanie Booth - Healthline
FILE - This June 14, 2011, file photo, shows the drug Lipitor at Medco Health Solutions Inc., in Willingboro, N.J. A new study shows very long-term benefits from even short-term use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, such as Lipitor. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (AP)

There's another type of bad cholesterol

Brian Mastroianni - Healthline
Breast cancer survivors walk on the field before an NFL game (AP/Seth Wenig)

The cost after breast cancer treatment

Ann Pietrangelo - Healthline
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Blue light from phones may be damaging

Rajiv Bahl
A plane dusts 1,200 sheep against ticks with 10 per cent DDT powder, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, on the Hoover ranch in Medford, Ore. in 1948. (AP Photo)

Long-banned DDT still poses health risks

Jamie Reno - Healthline
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