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When the Affordable Care Act went into full effect this year, it gave uninsured Americans a powerful incentive to go out and obtain a health policy: a fee if they didn’t comply. And while the penalty was relatively mild in 2014, it’s only going to increase...

Wine could be as harmful as vodka

Drinking a large glass of wine could be as harmful as consuming three shots of vodka, says a top health official Drinking a large glass of wine is as potentially harmful as downing three shots of vodka, a senior health official has said. Duncan Selbie, chief executive...

Hopes for breast cancer vaccine

Of 14 women with advanced breast cancer who received the vaccine, half showed no sign of tumour growth a year after treatment Of 14 women with advanced breast cancer who received the vaccine, half showed no sign of tumour growth one year after treatment. Scientists...