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Smith was co-editor in chief of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and an important researcher in the field.

Anna Kasper's husband and children revealed this weekend that the Lakewood woman was the donor for the groundbreaking transplant Cleveland Clinic doctors performed in 2008. The Kaspers made the announcement to give Anna her place in history.

Federal regulators Thursday took the highly unusual step of moving to revoke approval of a drug to treat advanced breast cancer.

The states asked U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson to issue a summary judgment throwing out the health care law without a full trial. They argue it violates people's rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 or face penalties.

The FDA said Wednesday that some manufacturers are deceptively labeling products to hide that they contain ingredients known to cause adverse health effects. Other supplements contain ingredients that should only be available by prescription.

Dr. Derek Raghavan, director of the Cleveland Clinic's Taussig Cancer Institute, leaves next year for a new job in Charlotte, N.C.

HCP, a real estate investment trust that owns and operates health facilities, says HCR ManorCare will continue running those properties.

A superbug named C-diff is on the rise, a germ that so ravages some people's intestines that repeated tries of the strongest, most expensive antibiotic can't conquer their disabling diarrhea. Now a small but growing number of doctors are trying a last-ditch treatment: Using good bacteria to fight off the bad by transplanting stool from a healthy person into the sick person's colon.

A number of patients' rights advocacy groups have called for mandatory drug testing of all medical professionals, said Diane Pinakiewicz, president of the National Patient Safety Foundation in Boston. But many in the medical community argue such testing would infringe on personal privacy of doctors. Through the first 10 months of 2010, Illinois' state licensing board reprimanded or suspended the licenses of at least 156 medical professionals for stealing, using or mishandling drugs, or failing drug tests. Those numbers have remained fairly consistent over the last 10 years, records show, even while awareness of the problem in the medical community has grown

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U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson is the first judge to rule against the law, which has been upheld by two others in Virginia and Michigan.

He seemed like Superman, able to guide jumbo jets through perilous skies and tiny tubes through blocked arteries. As a cardiologist and United Airlines captain, William Hamman taught doctors and pilots ways to keep hearts and planes from crashing. He shared millions in grants, had university and hospital posts, and bragged of work for prestigious medical groups. An Associated Press story featured him leading a teamwork training session at an American College of Cardiology convention last spring. But it turns out Hamman isn't a cardiologist or even a doctor.

New numbers show kindergarten and fifth-grade students in 15 of Cleveland's inner-ring suburbs are as heavy or a little heavier than the national average.

Without congressional action that wrapped up Thursday, costs would rise for treating children with chronic and rare medical conditions.

Getting enough rest, avoiding germs and getting a flu shot are the best ways to stay healthy this season.

An appeals court ruling means the government can oversee marketing of electronic cigarettes, but not restrict their sale.

If your past three consecutive Pap tests have been all clear -- no abnormal cells, no inflammation -- and no abnormalities have shown up in the past 10 years, it's usually considered fine to stop having these cervical cancer tests.

People with suspected food allergies may need to submit to an oral food challenge -- ingesting the food in a doctor's office while symptoms are assessed -- in order to receive an accurate diagnosis, according to new guidelines issued Monday by a consortium of food allergy experts led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The guidelines specifically rule out attempting to diagnose a food allergy solely by skin-prick or blood tests that merely suggest an individual is "sensitized" to a particular food.

Beginning Jan. 1, the Cleveland Clinic will cut back on the charity care it offers, limiting it -- for the most part -- to those who live within about 150 miles of Cleveland. It will also require insured patients to pay the portion of their care not covered by their health plans.

The hospital makes about 400 transports a month, but about 150 of them are by helicopter for critical-care treatment, according to Damon M. Kralovic, director of critical-care treatment for the Cleveland Clinic, which runs Medina Hospital.