Value of ‘fringe’ cardiac treatment debated
<p>LOS ANGELES — A heart disease treatment that many doctors consider to be fringe medicine unexpectedly showed some promise in a federal study clouded by ethical and scientific controversy,
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Study: Vitamins don’t lower men’s heart risks
<p>LOS ANGELES — Multivitamins might help lower the risk for cancer in healthy older men but do not affect their chances of developing heart disease, new research suggests.</p>
UK denies right-to-die challenge
<p>LONDON (AP) — Britain’s High Court rejected an attempt by a man who has locked-in syndrome to overturn the country’s euthanasia law by refusing to legally allow doctors to end his life.<
Facial nerve can cause unbearable pain
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Listerine mouthwash eases pain of shingles
<p>Q. Three weeks after a shingles attack, I was suffering excruciating nerve pain across the right side of my scalp and behind my ear.
Of mice and the making of eggs
<p>NEW YORK — Scientists have turned mouse skin cells into eggs that produced baby mice — a technique that, if successfully applied to humans, could someday allow women to stop worrying about
‘Hello. I have cancer’
Comic’s startling set draws laughter, tears
<p>NEW YORK — A frightfully nervous Tig Notaro stood just offstage at the Los Angeles club Largo while Ed Helms introduced her.</p>
Police withdraw report on Danville incident
<p>RUSH TWP. — State Police have withdrawn a report that Randy A. Kileof Danville dismantled a retaining wall.</p>
Europe’s crisis a threat to U.S.
<p>EDITOR’S NOTE:One in a series examining issues at stake in the election and their impact on people.</p>
<p> By PAUL WISEMAN</p>
Bidder may restore Lightstreet house
<p>LIGHTSTREET — A bidder has stepped up to try to restore a 173-year-old house here, an official says.</p>