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Obamacare rolls shrank dramatically in Ohio, other states over the past year, new federal data shows

The data shows Ohio lost nearly one-third of its enrollees over the past year.

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2nd Annual Men’s Health Summit at Tower City broadens its scope

The Healeth Summit will be held Saturday at Tower City Center.

The Superhero Project creates personalized cartoon crusaders for disabled, chronically ill youth 

“For some of the families, going through this process is an inflection point where it’s the first time that they and their child have the opportunity to be seen and understood and celebrated in the way that we want all kids to feel."

Tarik Skubal, the Cleveland Browns and other athletes credit a tiny new scope for faster recoveries

Several top pro athletes and their surgeons say a modern version of an old tool is shaving weeks off the recovery time after certain injuries. And some top doctors think this is only the beginning.

Bringing the farm to the city: Farm Dog Fresh offers fresh, local produce on Cleveland’s West Side

One customer says: “For [Clevelanders], sometimes it’s hard to get fresh, local produce. We need to take advantage of these produce stands for the four or five months out of the year that they’re open.”

Grandparents for Vaccines don’t want Clevelanders reliving the brutality of polio, meningitis

Grandparents for Vaccines was founded by Dr. Arthur Lavin of Shaker Heights, a retired pediatrician and a grandfather of four. The group recently won $250,000 from the Mt. Sinai Health Foundation to promote vaccines around the country.

Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, and some expert worry about future illnesses

Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country. Some U.S. doctors are worried about the potential for a bad year for tick-borne diseases.

Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift

President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general has signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug. It's a major policy shift long sought by advocates who say cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.

Safe Families for Children helps Northeast Ohio parents in need of support

Host families step in when parents in dire straits have nowhere else to turn. 

Meet the Cleveland scientists working to reverse Parkinson’s disease

A team at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine has created a protein, called CS2 for short, that helps in mice, human cells and human tissues to undo a brain malfunction behind the progressively debilitating disease.

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