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A significant weapon in the fight against lung cancer may be going to waste, as a survey revealed most Americans aren’t aware it. Annual CT screenings administered to people with a history of smoking can raise the five-year survival rate of lung cancer by 63%, but as few as 38% of people in the U.S. know about it.

“The survey shows that we ...Read more

For some people, it's chocolate. For others, pizza. Or perhaps it's Chinese food, cheeseburgers or fries.

Most people experience food cravings of some type. But where do those cravings come from? And what, if anything, can be done to control them?

Cravings are nothing more than a desire for something that's rewarding, said Dr. Rajita Sinha, a ...Read more

If you've watched a sporting event lately – and especially if you've ever bet on one – odds are you already know how radically sports gambling has changed in recent years.

"It's not even the same world," said Dr. Timothy Fong, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Twenty years ago, if you wanted to legally...Read more

HUDSON, Wis. — Sure, there are pickleball workshops, lunches in the dining hall, yoga classes and nature hikes. You’ll make friends over s’mores around the fire pit and maybe share a bunkhouse with roommates.

The biggest difference is that you — yes, you, a full-grown adult — are the camper.

“I’m here to find my zen,” Perry ...Read more

My butler snaps open a white linen cloth and smooths it over the table. He lays out a silver coffee pot, cream pitcher, a selection of sweeteners, salt and pepper shakers and two sets of flatware tucked within folded cloth napkins.

Next come the covered plates of chilled fruit, omelets accompanied by crisp bacon and a stack of blueberry and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Programs that feed older, homebound adults are instituting waiting lists amid budget crunches, rising costs of food, growing demand for their services and funding cuts from the government.

Combined with the end of COVID-19 era aid, local groups are finding that they can no longer serve the same number of people, resulting in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Programs that feed older, homebound adults are instituting waiting lists amid budget crunches, rising costs of food, growing demand for their services and funding cuts from the government.

Combined with the end of COVID-19 era aid, local groups are finding that they can no longer serve the same number of people, resulting in ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- It’s always a joy to visit the downtown San Jose Fire Museum, but being there for retired Fire Capt. Sam Seibert’s birthday celebration was really something special.

Seibert turned 105 on Monday, and he was the guest of honor at a party at the Market Street firehouse-turned-museum on Tuesday. He sat upon a throne, was ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- It’s always a joy to visit the downtown San Jose Fire Museum, but being there for retired Fire Capt. Sam Seibert’s birthday celebration was really something special.

Seibert turned 105 on Monday, and he was the guest of honor at a party at the Market Street firehouse-turned-museum on Tuesday. He sat upon a throne, was ...Read more

Coffee grounds and bleach aren’t normal midnight snacks, but people with sleep-related eating disorder have consumed them and other dangerous items without being aware.

“I would wake up with these containers or wrappers from an entire box of crackers or cookies on my bed or by the side of my bed,” Jill, 62, told CNN. The Atlanta-based ...Read more

Thanks to menopause, almost everyone knows something about how age affects hormone levels – in women.

But while menopause has launched a thousand hot-flash jokes, men have their own version. It's called andropause, and though it's less of a pop-culture presence, it's a medical reality that's subject to misconceptions, experts say.

Starting ...Read more

At 51, Kerwin Ifill had a stroke. Though he believed he was in excellent health, a tangle of blood vessels – something called an arteriovenous malformation, or AVM – was hiding in his brain. One day after a regular gym workout, a vessel burst while he was taking a nap.

The brain bleed caused the entire right side of Ifill's body to go numb....Read more