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Use coffee filters to reduce your lousy LDL cholesterol
Grabbing a cup of coffee at work is a time-honored tradition -- to boost your ability to concentrate on tasks at hand and to socialize for a couple of minutes with colleagues. In fact, one survey found that two-thirds of ...Read more
Second Marriage Deteriorates As Reality Becomes Clearer
DEAR ABBY: I'm 58 and five years into my second marriage. We lived together a little over a year before getting married. I spent seven years as a caregiver for my parents before marrying my current husband.
We moved to ...Read more
Patient Avoids Using A New Drug Due To Its Potentially High Risk
DEAR DR. ROACH: Could you offer any general advice on how patients should weigh the risks versus benefits when they are prescribed a drug that lists many potentially serious side effects? I once had a specialist suggest ...Read more
Are we not to have a sense of pride about living a good life among others?
From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham
Q: I find myself doing an inner perspective of my life every year after Easter and promising myself that I will live a better life, refrain from sinful ways and declare myself ...Read more
Ukrainian Catholics pack Michigan church to celebrate Easter as war continues back home
Nearly a thousand parishioners with ties to Ukraine gathered at a church in Hamtramck, Michigan, for services on Easter Sunday, celebrating the day Jesus rose from the dead while worrying about the war ravaging their home ...Read more
JD Vance, Pope Francis met at Vatican on Easter Sunday
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Pope Francis met at the Vatican on Easter Sunday, shortly before the pontiff delivered a sermon urging political leaders to support vulnerable populations.
The meeting, announced by Vance...Read more
Young colon cancer patient finds success in treatment borrowed from other cancer
In 2023, Bret Hulick was in his second year of medical school at LECOM in Erie, analyzing the case of a 24-year-old colon cancer patient. The patient had to choose between an established therapy with a high likelihood of ...Read more
In rural Massachusetts, patients and physicians weigh trade-offs of concierge medicine
Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts, a small city two hours west of Boston, for about 10 years. She was happy with the care, though she started to notice it was becoming harder to ...Read more
RFK Jr. struggles to navigate frustrated supporters and a demanding boss
After the Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, supporters of his “Make America Healthy Again” movement cheered at having a champion in the federal government.
Now the ...Read more
Ex-Wife Still Using 'Kids' To Hurt Their Father
DEAR ABBY: My daughter was living in my garage apartment but then got married and moved away. Her sister is in law school in another state, and her brother is even farther away in graduate school. I moved close enough to ...Read more
Small Steps Add Up To Counter Negativity
Q: I get so discouraged over what I see in our country. So many problems driven by so much negativity and animosity. In the midst of all this arguing, what can one person do?
Jim: I'll start with a simple analogy. Let's ...Read more
What is listeria? Things to know about the bacteria and how to prevent infection
BALTIMORE — At least two cases of listeria have been linked to ice cream in the Baltimore metro area, prompting health and safety concerns.
Listeria is a bacterium that can contaminate food and cause serious, sometimes ...Read more
Health department confirms Virginia's first measles case of 2025
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The Virginia Department of Health confirmed the state’s first measles case of 2025 in a Saturday announcement.
The agency said a child 4 or under living in the state’s northwest health region ...Read more
Vatican reports exchange of views with Vance about migration
JD Vance met with the Vatican’s second highest-ranking official during his visit to Rome, a meeting that took the U.S. vice president to the governing body of his own faith amid tension with the U.S. over immigration ...Read more
Grandmother Thinks Toddler Should Be More Responsible
DEAR ABBY: I have a 16-month-old who has recently learned to walk. My mom was watching him one day a week while I worked part-time, but she ultimately decided it was too much stress on her back and said she could no longer...Read more
Why does the Bible says that we must become like little children?
From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham
Q: When I was a child I thought of Easter as the purity of spring, baby bunnies, and colored eggs. Now that I’m a parent and have children, I am amazed at their comprehension ...Read more
Retired officer called an ‘inspiration’ at birthday bash. At 104, he may be oldest cop in US
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — Two days after his 104th birthday, retired Oakland police Officer Toft Jessen was celebrated Thursday by dozens of Oakland police officers past and present, along with many others who lauded him as ...Read more
SC churches go to Supreme Court to try to break away from denomination
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Multiple South Carolina churches are taking their parent denomination to the S.C. Supreme Court to try to get out from under its jurisdiction and keep their church holdings intact.
The lawsuit was filed...Read more
Health officials confirm Michigan's first measles outbreak since 2019
DETROIT — Local and state health officials confirmed Thursday that Michigan is experiencing its first measles outbreak since 2019.
An outbreak is defined as three or more related cases, which has been confirmed in ...Read more
Supreme Court to hear arguments over preventive care task force
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Monday about the legality of the process to mandate cost-free preventive care used by millions of Americans, in a case brought by a group of Texas businesses ...Read more
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