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DEAR ABBY: I am writing for advice on how to be supportive of my adult children in light of an alleged crime committed by their mother. She was arrested for first-degree murder. The victim was my children's younger half-...Read more

Q: What do we say to our kids when Grandpa and Grandma play favorites? My parents are clearly partial to my daughter -- their first grandchild -- over her little brother. He obviously notices but doesn't say much. Help?!? ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Health officials in California are defending the traditional childhood vaccination schedule against efforts by the Trump administration to weaken it.

The long-standing childhood vaccine schedule is safe, ...Read more

Parents are all too familiar with the ongoing battle to get their kids to eat a vegetable or two.

This summer, they’ve been fighting it themselves.

Just weeks ago, every bite of greens came with the fear of exposure ...Read more

LONDON — Researchers have pinpointed the potential cause of a type of stroke suffered by hundreds of thousands of people around the world every year, which could explain why widely used treatments do not work.

The ...Read more

LONDON — New research suggests that doing 90 minutes to two hours of weight training per week can slash the risk of an early death.

The new study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, involved 147,374 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world, experts in California say the disease appears to be becoming more of a summer rather than a winter phenomenon.

The shift was noted over the past ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I've been with my husband, "Ted," for nearly 15 years, married for 11. He has two children, 38 and 33, and I have one who is 32. When we started dating, none of our children planned to have children of their own...Read more

“It’s all in your head.”

By the time many people with functional neurological disorder arrive in our clinic, they have heard these five words more times than they can count. They are told their brain scan ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun searching for new members for a vaccine advisory committee it is quietly reshaping to look at alternatives to vaccinations, a move that has drawn worries from outside ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two more people have died of Legionnaires’ disease, raising the death toll from this summer’s Upper East Side outbreak to nine, officials announced Friday.

“I’m saddened to share that 2 more people ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear believes he’s done everything possible to demand more transparency surrounding Sen. Mitch McConnell’s absence.

In a Friday interview on MS Now’s State of Play, host ...Read more

A longtime ally of Sen. Mitch McConnell said Kentucky’s senior senator is aware of and seems frustrated by the intense public scrutiny about his health condition.

Scott Jennings, a former McConnell adviser and ...Read more

Scientists designed self-policing T cells to stop the immune system from attacking insulin-producing cells in mouse trials, suggesting a way to reverse diabetes.

People with Type 1 diabetes rely on supplemental insulin to...Read more

DEAR ABBY: Do charities and nonprofits share or sell donor information? For years, maybe decades, I've made quarterly contributions to two well-known charities for children's cancer research hospitals, and I truly believe ...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: I had a preemployment physical for my current position as a firefighter/EMT back in January. I had another preemployment physical for a new position with the fire department last month, and both ...Read more

The fire season is a-blazing. With it comes repeated warnings about the damage that toxic particles -- micro-fine and larger -- floating in the air can do to everyone's overall health. That's because the smoky pollution ...Read more

Pennsylvania will not change its immunization guidelines in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order this week calling for states to reduce the number of recommended childhood vaccinations and separate a ...Read more

It’s 2 a.m., and a teenage girl, worrying about a friend issue, lies awake. Rather than wake her parents, she picks up her phone, opens an AI app and types, “I’m so stressed out, I can’t sleep.”

A ...Read more