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New surgery for benign prostate hyperplasia provides long-lasting benefits
Most men over 50 will develop an enlarged prostate. Also called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), this bothersome condition makes it hard to urinate and can eventually lead to other problems, such as infections, kidney ...Read more
The Air Up There
Airplane air quality is generally regarded as good, comparable to or better than other indoor environments thanks to high air exchange rates and the use of high-efficiency particulate air filters. But any air traveler ...Read more
‘Strong Grandma’ is record-holding powerlifter at 95
At 95 years old, Catherine Kuehn wasn’t just lifting weights. She was a competing powerlifter — one worthy of her own documentary.
Presented by The New Yorker, “Strong Grandma” follows Kuehn as she reminisces ...Read more
Healthy Men: Mental Health Awareness Month: Why we need to focus on men
Dear Healthy Men: Do men’s and women’s mental health issues and needs differ? And if so, how?
A: With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, this question couldn’t be more topical. And while this is a crucial time...Read more
Springing into action after a sedentary season? Here's how to protect your heart
People are starting to engage in outdoor activities after a winter spent largely indoors and perhaps with less physical activity than during more temperate seasons. In other climates, people may be starting an indoor, less...Read more
Imaging the future of trans health care -- and plastering it across a museum
CHICAGO -- The “Memory Palaces” of Edie Fake, exuberant, soft shimmering facades that glow like neon in the rain, paintings he likes to describe as comics, were largely about the past.
Or rather, some imagined Chicago...Read more
Covered California pushes for better health care as federal spending cuts loom
Faced with potential federal spending cuts that threaten health coverage and falling childhood vaccination rates, Monica Soni, the chief medical officer of Covered California, has a lot on her plate — and on her mind.
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Editorial: Betraying 9/11 survivors: WTC Health Program firings undercut promise to restore services
The promise of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to restore the steep cuts to the World Trade Center Health Program was a worthless lie, betraying the heroes and victims of 9/11. He is a low ...Read more
Parent And Daughter Still Struggle To Find Balance
DEAR ABBY: I haven't had a holiday with my grown daughter, "Charly," since she left the state 12 years ago. When she came out as a lesbian, I wasn't very accepting and didn't handle it well. I have since apologized.
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Deciphering Which Vaccines Require An Annual Booster
DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 74-year-old man with no major health issues. Over the past several years, I have been getting a COVID booster in the spring with a second booster in the fall, as well as a flu shot. At my age, is ...Read more
The smell tell
If something smells fishy to you --well, you're lucky. Being able to discern odors turns out to be an important component of good health, helping you avoid malnutrition, depression and early death!
Unfortunately, lots of ...Read more
Is it so true that He works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform?
From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham
Q: I’m in awe after getting a prayer answered, though I prayed without really believing God would answer my request. I had longed to go as a missionary to Ukraine after the war...Read more
NC House passes bill curbing minors' access to confidential mental health, STD care
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A bill limiting when minors can consent to medical treatment without parental involvement passed the North Carolina House, with every Republican who voted supporting it and all but four Democrats who ...Read more
New Wash. state law requires priests to report child abuse. DOJ calls it 'anti-Catholic'
A new Washington state law requires Catholic priests and other religious community leaders of different faiths to report potential child abuse to state authorities.
But does the law signed by Gov. Bob Ferguson on May 2 ...Read more
NC bill to allow non-prescription use of ivermectin reignites COVID controversy
RALEIGH, N.C. — A drug that gained international attention for its controversial off-label use during the COVID-19 pandemic could soon be available in North Carolina without a prescription.
House Bill 618, titled the �...Read more
Next pope betting odds: Long shot gains momentum as conclave nears
Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a 50-1 betting long shot to be elected pope in 2013, when the former Argentine cardinal beat the odds and took the name Pope Francis.
Bettors are banking on another long shot to succeed Pope ...Read more
Commentary: I'm praying for a pope of color
Pope Francis’ version of diversity, equity and inclusion had special importance for me as a Black man and a devotional Catholic.
When he traveled to Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands, I shouted in joy. It was blunt ...Read more
Alabama can't prosecute groups helping patients get abortions elsewhere, judge rules
Reproductive rights groups in Alabama wasted no time resuming their work after a federal judge ruled in early April that the state’s attorney general can’t prosecute — or threaten to prosecute — people or ...Read more
Life after California's death row: What happens when condemned inmates get a second chance
SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin's death row.
Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary Breck at her Kern County ...Read more
California's primary care shortage persists despite ambitious moves to close gap
Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent practice she founded 27 years ago in Salinas, California, a predominantly Latino city in...Read more
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