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By Jen Christensen CNN Medicare's outlook improves as health spending slows The long-term prognosis for Medicare has improved thanks to slower health spending, while the outlook for Social Security remains unchanged. That's according to the annual report from the trustees of both entitlement programs released on Monday. "[T]h... By Jeanne Sahadi Bill would legalize some cannabis strains Doctors in Macon, Georgia, told Janea Cox that her daughter, Haleigh, might not live another three months. That was the middle of March, when Haleigh's brain was being short-circuited by hundreds of seizures a day, overrunning the array of five poten... By Caleb Hellerman CNN Second American infected with Ebola A second American aid worker in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola, according to the Christian humanitarian group she works for. Nancy Writebol is employed by Serving in Mission, or SIM, in Liberia and was helping the joint SIM/Samaritan's Purse te... By Joe Sutton and Holly Yan CNN Ebola virus reaches Lagos, Nigeria A Liberian man who was hospitalized in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, with the Ebola virus has died, Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said. "The patient was subjected to thorough medical tests ... which confirmed he had the Ebola virus," Chuk... By Laura Smith-Spark CNN This won't be the AIDS-free generation He was just 18 years old when he got the news. It was the summer before his senior year in high school. Bryan Seth Johnson was diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus, better known as HIV. By Saundra Young CNN 5 studies you may have missed Here's a roundup of five medical studies published this week that might give you new insights into your health, mind and body. Remember, correlation is not causation -- so if a study finds a connection between two things, it doesn't mean that one causes the other. By Saarik Gupta Special to CNN CDC lab resumes shipping of TB samples A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reopened, according to the CDC. By Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield CNN Man claims his penis was mistakenly amputated An Alabama man has filed a lawsuit accusing doctors of mistakenly amputating his penis during a routine circumcision. Ebola outbreak: Time to test vaccines? Ebola virus disease is sweeping across West Africa in the largest outbreak of the virus to date. 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