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I just got off the phone with a very special friend. Since we now live in different states, we don’t talk as often. But her voice always encourages me.

“Can you believe I’ll be 92 on my next birthday?” she said in...Read more

DEAR ABBY: My daughter has been married to her high school sweetheart for 15 years. Their marriage has been rocky from the start due to her husband's "God" complex. He's a spoiled brat and a compulsive liar. He has not ...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 74-year-old man. I have a DEXA score of -3.3. I take 1,200 mg of calcium with vitamin D daily. I lift weights and swim two to three times a week. My doctor put me on Prolia, and I had six months of...Read more

Many tick-borne conditions can lead to chronic inflammation that causes fatigue, brain fog, arthritis, and irritation of the lining of the heart and lungs -- all prematurely aging you. Unfortunately, as many as 300,000 ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: Technology is taking over the world! Who, other than tech gurus, can keep up with the constant change, the advancements? Even the...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Safehouse, the nonprofit aiming to open a supervised drug consumption site in Philadelphia, is legally entitled to argue that it has a religious right to prevent...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Amid a wave of arrests and apprehensions of undocumented immigrants, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced plans to bolster delivery of hot meals, groceries and prescription medicines to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Archbishop Nelson Pérez has released a letter calling for solidarity with immigrants, as ICE increases its enforcement in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

“You are not alone. The Church is a ...Read more

DETROIT — Two measles cases were confirmed in Kent County last week, bringing its total count to four, officials said.

The Kent County Health Department announced the new cases in a press release Wednesday but did not ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The combination of a recently approved blood test for detection of Alzheimer’s disease combined with two medications that slow progression of the disease is drastically improving outcomes for patients ...Read more

When Lawrence and Penny Higgins of Fairfield, Maine, first learned in 2020 that high levels of toxic chemicals called PFAS taint their home’s well water, they wondered how their health might suffer. They had consumed the...Read more

Every time Ashton Alexander sees an ad for Georgia Pathways to Coverage, it feels like a “kick in the face.”

Alexander tried signing up for Pathways, the state’s limited Medicaid expansion, multiple times and got ...Read more

SHREVEPORT, La. — When Robert Smith met his future girlfriend in 2010, he wanted to take things slowly. For Smith, no relationship had been easy in the years since he was diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Joseph O’Connor, pastor of the Sacramento Fijian Seventh-day Adventist Church, doesn’t mind that his congregation meets in a rented space off Arden Way.

On Saturdays, the church is one of many ...Read more

ALBANY, Ga. — Belinda McLoyd has been thinking about peanut butter.

McLoyd, 64, receives a small monthly payment through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, previously known as food stamps.

“They ...Read more

A group of university researchers at Northwestern — including a nursing mother — have come up with a way to ease one of the most anxiety-producing dilemmas of early breastfeeding: How much milk is the baby consuming?

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Information, in the second Trump administration, is a currency of power and fear. Last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced sweeping subpoenas targeting physicians and medical providers who offer care for transgender...Read more

Lots of comments about our new, big mystery topic: Are we reincarnated into another life, or is this life the only one we will ever know?

Q: I’m a practicing Catholic. I follow most of their beliefs but have worked ...Read more