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While many people will be enjoying the next few weeks surrounded by friends and family, many of our neighbors will be isolated, especially those in their senior years.

This isolation can contribute to depression and other...Read more

With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop.

Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to ...Read more

CHICAGO — Carey Carlock never imagined she’d have so much trouble finding a therapist for her teenage child.

She was a hospital CEO, on the board of a prominent local mental health organization and well connected. Yet...Read more

The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest-ever U.S. investment in rural health care. But the government made minimal mention of Native American tribes in ...Read more

ROCHESTER, Minn.— A new year offers new beginnings and an opportunity to reset your eating habits after the holidays. Andrea Delgado, a Mayo Clinic dietitian, says it's best to eliminate what you don't need, including ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I've been married to a narcissist for 28 years. He has gaslighted me for our entire 30 years together. He has had a "work wife," a flirtation with the next-door neighbor hottie, and he paid for two sexy girls' ...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 74-year-old woman who is in better-than-average shape for my age. I only take blood pressure meds, walk for exercise, and am only slightly overweight.

I have had seven COVID vaccinations from ...Read more

If you're a recreational runner (or a serious 7,000 to 10,000-steps-a-day walker), you want to do everything you can to avoid injury while you're enjoying the great outdoors. But studies show that up to 90% of runners will...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: Where does a person begin reading the Bible? It is such a huge book and covers so much history and biographical material, but most of all, I’ve heard many people say that it...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines caused deaths in adults, as part of a safety review that earlier appeared to just be focused on children.

The investigation, being...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans plan to vote this week on a likely futile plan to counter Democrats’ push to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies as health care costs for more than 20 million people are set to spike on ...Read more

BOSTON — Governor Maura Healey is demanding congressional Republicans vote to extend a set of tax credits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to prevent what she calls skyrocketing health care costs across the country, ...Read more

The government shutdown may be over, but Congress still hasn’t solved the biggest problem left on its plate: Extend the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies to avoid a doubling of insurance premiums or replace them ...Read more

The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, the country will enter an era in which outbreaks are common again.

More children would be hospitalized because of this preventable ...Read more

Elisabeth Yoder’s son, Darragh, was 15 months old in August when he developed what at first looked to his parents like hand, foot, and mouth disease. The common viral infection generally clears up in less than a week, ...Read more

Since 2011, rates of colorectal cancer have been increasing by 2% a year in people younger than age 50. And while only 11% of colorectal cancer cases in 1995 were in folks 54 and younger, that number rose to 20% in 2019.

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DEAR ABBY: I'm a twice-divorced woman who has no children. I was raised by two deeply religious parents (now deceased) who attended church every Sunday and took me along. I regularly attended church until 15 years ago. At ...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a male who is 58 years of age. I recently had an MRI of my cervical spine, and just this month, I had a CT scan of my whole abdomen. Since then, I have had symptoms of dry eyes, weight loss and ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: I’ve been reading a lot about Charlie Kirk encouraging marriage and starting families. Elon Musk challenges Americans to have more children because our population is ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The Masjid Ash-Shura mosque on Colley Avenue in Norfolk was vandalized between Sunday night and Monday morning with a series of black crosses spray-painted along the side of the building, but a group of ...Read more