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Numbers from the CDC show someone has a stroke every 40 seconds, and someone dies from a stroke every four minutes. In the ...

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An American woman was left fighting for her life and had to have her foot amputated after an ingrown toenail turned gangrenous. Forty-two-year-old Lacey Shadrick always dealt with ingrown toenails, ...

The American Stroke Association defines a stroke as a "brain attack" that happens when the flow of blood to the brain is ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued an executive order Wednesday that bars state agencies from collecting and disclosing data about ...

The order was in response to a move by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services earlier Wednesday to research and ...

Autism is a human condition that we have learned more about in the last few decades. The full, scientific name is Autism ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid off thousands of workers since January. Current and former CDC staff members are grappling with uncertainty about both their futures and public ...