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FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2014 file photo, a laptop computer monitors a patient's heart function as he takes a stress test while riding a stationary bike in Augusta, Ga. A report released on Wednesday, Jan. 30 2019 estimates that nearly half of all U.S. adults have some form of heart or blood vessel disease, a medical milestone that's mostly due to recent guidelines that expanded how many people have high blood pressure. (AP Photo/The Augusta Chronicle, Michael Holahan)

Nearly 50% have heart, vessel disease

by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical WriterJanuary 31, 2019

A new report estimates that nearly half of all U.S. adults have some form of heart or blood vessel disease, a medical milestone that’s mostly due to recent guidelines that expanded how many people have high blood pressure.The American Heart…

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2018, file photo, He Jiankui is reflected in a glass panel as he works at a computer at a laboratory in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province. A Chinese investigation says Chinese scientist He, behind the reported birth of two babies whose genes had been edited in hopes of making them resistant to the AIDS virus, acted on his own and will be punished for any violations of the law. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

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China Confirms Claim Of Gene-Edited Babies

by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical WriterJanuary 21, 2019

In this Oct. 9, 2018, photo, Zhou Xiaoqin installs a fine glass pipette into a sperm injection microscope in preparation for injecting embryos with Cas9 protein and PCSK9 sgRNA at a lab in Shenzhen in southern China's Guandong province. China's government on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, ordered a halt to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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China Halts Team’s Work on Gene-Edited Babies

by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical WriterNovember 29, 2018

In this Oct. 9, 2018 photo, an embryo receives a small dose of Cas9 protein and PCSK9 sgRNA in a sperm injection microscope in a laboratory in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province. Chinese scientist He Jiankui claims he helped make world's first genetically edited babies: twin girls whose DNA he said he altered. He revealed it Monday, Nov. 26, in Hong Kong to one of the organizers of an international conference on gene editing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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Chinese Researcher Makes Claim of Gene-Edited Babies

by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical WriterNovember 26, 2018

FILE - In this Thursday, April 25, 2013 file photo, elementary school third graders run under a rainbow colored tarp during the 15th Annual Kansas Kids Fitness Day, in Hutchinson, Kan. New federal guidelines released on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, advise that children as young as age 3 should move more, sit less and get more active, and that any amount and any type of exercise helps health. (Aaron Marineau/The Hutchinson News via AP)

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New Guidelines: Start Exercise Early

by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical WriterNovember 12, 2018

FILE - This undated fluorescence-colored microscope image made available by the National Institutes of Health in September 2016 shows a culture of human breast cancer cells. For the first time, one of the new immunotherapy drugs has shown promise against breast cancer in a large study that combined it with chemotherapy to treat an aggressive form of the disease. Results were discussed Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018 at a European Society for Medical Oncology conference in Munich and published by the New England Journal of Medicine. (Ewa Krawczyk/National Cancer Institute via AP)

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Immunotherapy Scores First Win Against Breast Cancer

by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical WriterOctober 20, 2018

A cognitive test sheet completed by a study participant sits on an examination room table at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Friday, July 13, 2018. The hospital took part in a landmark study suggesting a connection between high blood pressure and mild cognitive impairment. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

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Lower Blood Pressure Lessens Alzehimer’s Risk

by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical WriterJuly 25, 2018

This Aug. 8, 2013 photo provided by Duke University shows Dr. Matthias Gromeier at his laboratory at Duke in Durham, N.C. Gromeier developed a modified poliovirus to attack glioblastoma brain tumor cells. One of the world's most dreaded viruses has been turned into an immune system therapy to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study treated with the modified poliovirus, which helped their bodies attack their cancer, doctors reported on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (Shawn Rocco/Duke Health via AP)

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Enemy Turned Ally: Poliovirus Is Used to Fight Brain Tumors

by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical WriterJune 26, 2018

In this Thursday, May 24, 2018 photo, Adine Usher, 78, meets with breast cancer study leader Dr. Joseph Sparano at the Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx borough of New York. Usher was one of about 10,000 participants in the study which shows women at low or intermediate risk for breast cancer recurrence may safely skip chemotherapy without hurting their chances of survival. (AP Photo/Kathy Young)

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Study: Many Can Skip Breast Cancer Chemo

by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical WriterJune 3, 2018

FILE - In this June 3, 2010, file photo, Dr. Steven Birnbaum works with a patient in a CT scanner at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, N.H. According to a study released on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, less than 2 percent of eligible current and former smokers have sought free lung cancer screening, five years after government and private insurers started paying for it. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

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Few Smokers Seek Free Lung Scans

by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical WriterMay 16, 2018

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Nearly 50% have heart, vessel disease

China Confirms Claim Of Gene-Edited Babies

China Halts Team’s Work on Gene-Edited Babies

Chinese Researcher Makes Claim of Gene-Edited Babies

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Immunotherapy Scores First Win Against Breast Cancer

Lower Blood Pressure Lessens Alzehimer’s Risk

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