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Meet the critters inside your mattress

The mattress can be a jungle of dust mites and bedbugs, milling around among dried remnants of blood, saliva, sweat and basically all the other bodily fluids.

Lou Gehrig's victim: Kill me for my organs

A Georgia man suffering from Lou Gehrig's Disease says he wants to die by having his organs harvested rather than wait for his degenerative nerve ailment to kill him.

Hoarding called a public health issue

In extreme cases, hoarders' obsession has led to fires, attracted vermin, endangered their families, that experts describe it as a growing public health problem.

Calcium supplements may boost heart attack risk

The millions of people who take calcium supplements to strengthen aging bones and ward off osteoporosis may be putting themselves at increased risk of a heart attack, a new study has found.

Clone farm goal: Disease-resistant animals

Cloning has been a controversial issue since German embryologist Hans Spemann first made a pair of adorable, genetically identical salamander twins out of a single egg, way back in nineteen-dickety-two.

Alcohol may fight rheumatoid arthritis

Drinking alcohol may ease the pain of -- and lower the risk of developing -- rheumatoid arthritis, a potentially crippling autoimmune disorder, a new study finds.

Hands-only CPR equally effective

As compression-only CPR has grown in use, the question has remained whether it's as effective as the traditional form that includes mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Two new studies say yes. FULL STORY | WATCH: CPR in 2 minutes

Dispersant concerns remain

Little is known about the effects of the chemicals added to the Gulf of Mexico to break up oil flowing from the Deepwater Horizon's ruptured well.

Government has your baby's DNA

When Annie Brown's daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis.

20 years later, ADA debate rages

When President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26, 1990, he addressed concerns the sweeping civil rights law would be ''too vague or costly, or may lead endlessly to litigation.''

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