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PHILADELPHIA — Rabbi Ethan Witkovsky and Reverend Adam Hearlson seem like they've been friends forever.

Witkovsky, 41, is the senior rabbi at Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El (TBH-BE), a Conservative movement synagogue in ...Read more

For more than a year, Diane Hunter, now 72, had been experiencing vague symptoms — pain in her spine and hips, nausea, exhaustion, thirst, and frequent urination. Her primary care physician had ruled out diabetes before ...Read more

The influenza season is just getting started -- it peaks December through February -- but if you find yourself contending with aches and pains, weariness, headaches and trouble sleeping, you may think you've come down with...Read more

DEAR ABBY: After my father died by suicide, my mother moved the family across the country. I was 13, and I never discussed my father's death with anyone.

Now, 50 years later, my best friend from high school has terminated...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: Recently, I underwent breast cancer surgery at my local hospital. Imagine my surprise when I found several staff members who weren't wearing masks in the operating room. Later I learned the policy is that...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: I’m searching for someone to teach me the Bible. I’ve tried on my own, and I just cannot understand it. I started from the very beginning and got lost in the floodwaters. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Expiring Obamacare subsidies face an uphill battle for renewal in the coming weeks as Democrats race against the clock to try to find enough Republicans willing to back an extension.

Millions of Americans ...Read more

When President Donald Trump posted a satirical music video on social media in early October depicting his budget director, Russell Vought, as the Grim Reaper lording over Democrats in Congress, public health workers ...Read more

Each November, we observe National Diabetes Month and engage in discussions surrounding prevention, management and the impact of this increasingly common autoimmune disease.

Diabetes, both type 1 and type 2, are ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Dominic Cipriano couldn’t stop shaking.

A drug dealer on the streets of Kensington had sold him a bag of what he thought was fentanyl. But whatever Cipriano had taken didn’t produce the familiar rush ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a federal disaster preparedness program threatens a fund used by state health systems from Republican-led Texas to the Democratic stronghold of California...Read more

Your body has more than 60,000 miles of blood vessels. And it's important that every mile is a well-paved highway or byway that allows your blood and the oxygen, nutrients, minerals, enzymes, hormones and immune cells that...Read more

DEAR ABBY: My mother is 80 and living alone after my dad passed. Her memory is failing. She recently fell and required shoulder surgery. This wasn't her first fall; she has also broken her hip within the past four years.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 79-year-old female who is currently on biannual infusions for osteoporosis and high cholesterol. In 2018, I was diagnosed with Lynch syndrome with an MSH6 deviation. The genetic testing was done ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: Why do some people believe that to be used of God, a person must receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit as a definable experience? I was saved in a Crusade, and I never heard ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — About 170,000 women in the United States are living with metastatic breast cancer — or cancer that has spread to other organs — and eventually leads to death.

Now, a team led in part by oncologists...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I just left a verbally and physically abusive relationship. I suffer from mental illness, and "Scott" made it worse. We lived together for almost four years. I could beat myself up over deciding to live with him...Read more

Q: I generally try to avoid conflict, especially with my spouse. But we still occasionally argue. That worries me; is it a sign that our relationship is struggling more than we know?

Jim: The presence of conflict doesn't ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of deaths in custody, the San Diego Sheriff’s Office will soon begin testing biometric monitoring devices designed to alert staff when someone in jail is in...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Antonio Villaraigosa, former Los Angeles mayor and current candidate for California governor, on Friday said he opposed the creation of a state-level single payer health care system.

Villaraigosa’...Read more