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Marijuana Advocate Rolling His Way To The White House

Curtis Kyle has cerebral palsy and has used his wheelchair his whole life.

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‘Smoking’ Alcohol: Is It Safe?

It's a known as the 'Vaportini' ...

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Expert: Michigan’s Tick Population Explodes

They like to bite and burrow under your skin — and, often, you don't even know they're there.

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Mom: Son Making ‘Miracle’ Recovery From West Nile

A 10-year-old Michigan boy paralyzed last year after being bitten by a mosquito carrying the West Nile virus is a "walking...

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Expert: Potent ‘Ear Wax Weed’ A Dangerous Trend

It has a strange name and poison experts say it has sent two people to the hospital in the past month.

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Scammers Using So-called ‘Obamacare’ To Target Seniors

Scammers are trying to fool consumers, in many cases seniors, into giving up personal information by claiming they’ve been selected to be among the first to get insurance cards for “Obamacare.”

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Protect Your Eyes From Summer’s Rays

We know that sunscreen is important to protect our skin from the summer sun’s damaging rays, but do we give our eyes the same protection?

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Health Care Price Growth Plummets to 1.1 Percent

Health care prices rose nationally just 1.1 percent from April 2012 to April 2013, the lowest annual increase since 1997, and a sharp 0.5 percentage point drop from the rate of increase reported in March from a year earlier.

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Heroin: ‘An Epidemic’ In The Wealthiest Suburbs

Oakland County has issued an alert following a recent rise in heroin overdoses in the state — including in some of metro Detroit’s most affluent neighborhoods.

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Sunflower Seed Products Recalled

A Michigan snack food maker is recalling sunflower seeds due to the potential of listeria contamination.

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Michigan House Panel Approves Medicaid Expansion

Hundreds of thousands of more low-income adults in Michigan would become eligible for government-funded health insurance under legislation backed Wednesday by a divided House committee.

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Antibiotics May Relieve Back Pain Symptoms

Taking antibiotics could relieve symptoms of chronic lower back pain, according to a new study.

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Confused By Health Care Marketplaces? Help Is Coming

Under the Affordable Care Act, people and small businesses will be able to purchase insurance through a Marketplace.

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Angelina Jolie’s Double Mastectomy: Q&A

Mutations in certain genes raise the risk of breast cancer by as much as 80 percent, experts say.

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