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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 file photo, a college student plays a computer game at an Internet cafe in Seoul, South Korea. On Monday, 18, 2018, the World Health Organization said that compulsively playing video games now qualifies as a mental health condition. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

WHO Considers What Constitutes an Addiction

by Lindsey Tanner AP Medical WriterJune 23, 2018

Celebrity Suicides Highlight Troubling Trend in Midlife

by Lindsey Tanner AP Medical WriterJune 9, 2018

FILE - In this June 26, 2015, file photo, a couple holds hands during their wedding ceremony in Atlanta. In a report released on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, researchers found that melanoma patients who are married tend to be diagnosed at an earlier more treatable stage than patients who are unmarried, widowed or divorced. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Spouses Can Help Detect Melanoma

by Lindsey Tanner AP Medical WriterApril 19, 2018

FILE - This Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2003 file photo shows hundreds of experimental poinsettias in colors of pink, red, white and even polka dot patterns, fill the University of Maryland Research Greenhouse Complex in College Park, Md. Pointsettias are not nearly as poisonous as a persistent myth says. Mild rashes from touching the plants or nausea from chewing or eating the leaves may occur but they aren't deadly, for humans or their pets. (AP Photo/Matt Houston)

Science Settles Common Holiday Myths, Truths

by Lindsey Tanner AP Medical WriterDecember 28, 2017

Amy Band talks to a group of children at the Verner Center in Asheville, N.C., on Thursday, March 23, 2017. Safe spaces, quiet times and breathing exercises for the preschoolers are designed to help kids cope with intense stress so they can learn. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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Researchers Find Ways to Help Children Heal From Toxic Stress

by Lindsey Tanner AP Medical WriterAugust 6, 2017

FILE - This Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 file photo shows hydrocodone pills, also known as Vicodin, arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. Leftover opioids are a common dilemma for surgery patients; a study published Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, suggests that after several common operations most don't use all their pills and many store the remainders unsafely at home. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Opioids Left Over After Surgeries

by Lindsey Tanner AP Medical WriterAugust 2, 2017

FILE - This Sunday, Dec. 5, 1999 file photo shows Tennessee Titans tight end Frank Wycheck during a football game against the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore. Wycheck worries that concussions during his nine-year career have left him with chronic traumatic encephalopathy and he plans to donate his brain to research. “Some people have heads made of concrete, and it doesn't really affect some of those guys,” he said. “But CTE is real.” (AP Photo/Roberto Borea)

Brain Disease Seen In Football Players

by Lindsey Tanner AP Medical WriterJuly 26, 2017

In this photo taken Friday, April 7, 2017, Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo poses at her office in San Francisco. Draft recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force ditch the old advice against PSA screening and say whether to get tested should be left up to men aged 55 to 69 after being informed of the potential benefits and harms. The advice would bring the influential panel more in line with other major doctor groups. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Regular Prostate Exams OK: Panel

by Lindsey Tanner AP Medical WriterApril 12, 2017

FILE - This Sept. 11 2009 file photo shows a packet of AndroGel testosterone in Hygiene, Colo. Testosterone treatment didn't improve older men's memories or mental function in the latest results from landmark government-funded research. Study men used AbbVie's AndroGel in a pump dispenser or placebo gel daily for a year. Some benefits were seen for bone growth and treating anemia but doctors say long-term research is needed to identify potential harms.(Richard M. Hackett /The Daily Times Call via AP, File)

Testosterone Gel Shows No Benefit for Older Men’s Memories

by Lindsey Tanner AP Medical WriterFebruary 21, 2017

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2006 file photo, a doctor holds a vial of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil in his Chicago office. A national estimate suggests that nearly half of U.S. men have mostly silent infections caused by the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus, and that 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers. The study was released Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

1 in 4 Men in U.S. Have Cancer-Linked HPV Genital Infections

by Lindsey Tanner AP Medical WriterJanuary 20, 2017