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A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her morning walks and feeling more fatigued than usual. Both reach ...Read more

Kenya will proceed with a plan to establish an Ebola isolation and treatment complex at a military facility with U.S. government funding, even after a court temporarily blocked the move.

President William Ruto’s ...Read more

Enough time had passed since the patient’s previous colonoscopy that she met the criteria to undergo another, said Steven Itzkowitz, a gastroenterologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

She ...Read more

Pediatricians often watch for signs that one illness might signal another. One example of linked health issues is the allergic march, a pattern that affects many babies and children worldwide.

The allergic march -- also ...Read more

Your immune system is designed to protect you from toxins, infections, harmful viruses and bacteria, and to destroy abnormal cells, like cancer. When immune system cells encounter these potential hazards, they can not only...Read more

DEAR ABBY: After four months of dating, I asked my boyfriend if we could move in together to save on rent. He was absolutely against the idea. We've now been dating for 10 months, and he recently got a letter stating that ...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: My future son-in-law was diagnosed with hemicrania continua several weeks ago by a neurologist and is responding to indomethacin. Could you provide a prognosis for this illness? The internet says that it ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: I struggle to overcome my checkered past. As a Christian now, how do I begin a new journey, because this world is still the same with all of its pitfalls and trouble? – N.J....Read more

ROME — Before Brandon Johnson was mayor of Chicago, he was a pastor’s kid.

That was a label he once again applied following his much-hyped meeting with Pope Leo XIV last week, one that he has played up to fortify how ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: We're a same-sex couple, and my husband has never gotten along with my sister and her husband. The tension has grown over the 17 years they've known each other. I suspect my sister may feel competitive or even ...Read more

Q: We adopted our teenage son at his birth and we've never hidden that fact from him. But recently he's become almost obsessed with the topic -- and especially his birth parents (who unfortunately did not maintain contact)...Read more

The world is not “well prepared” for the next pandemic, Tom Frieden, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, citing the current response to the Ebola outbreak and cuts to U.S. public ...Read more

It’s increasingly common to see headlines and social media conversations about the rise in colorectal cancer among younger adults. In fact, the growing incidence of colorectal cancer in people under age 50 helped ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I met "Maureen" 25 years ago, and we dated for a few months. Since then, we have remained friends in loose contact, married to and then divorced from other partners. Four years ago, we began talking and ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: Does God overlook our bad language? People say that there’s bad language in the Bible because the Prophet Jeremiah cursed the day he was born. I’m not sure that’s the ...Read more

ROME — Fresh off the glow of his summit with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, Mayor Brandon Johnson signaled Friday that Chicago could be due for another street or landmark christened after a pontiff.

In a sit-down ...Read more

As public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo work to rein in a growing outbreak of a rare Ebola virus, other countries are establishing protocols for keeping their own populations safe.

As of May...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — There’s never been a better time on TV for senior citizens to flex their muscles. Steve Martin (80) and Martin Short (76) are chasing killers on “Only Murders in the Building,” Harrison Ford (83) and ...Read more

A Kenyan high court temporarily blocked the government from approving a deal with the U.S. to establish an Ebola quarantine facility in the East African nation after a human rights group said the plan posed “grave health...Read more