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Regular snoring becomes more likely as you age. For me, the condition seems to have emerged about five years ago, in my early 30s, although it’s hard to pinpoint the precise beginning because I was ...

Columnist Shirley Wild writes about various fundraisers, galas and other recent social gatherings in Long Beach.

Workers at a Kansas hospital failed to properly sterilize and disinfect open-heart surgery devices, leading to slow-growing M ...

"She was 17, and she died in the ER a few hours after my shift. It's been five years, and when I think about it, I start ...

Black rain fell on Tehran after U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iranian oil facilities sent up dark clouds of toxic smoke.

When 30-year-old Ellie's relationship unexpectedly ended midway through her pregnancy, she was suddenly faced with the reality of raising a child on her own. But nothing prepared her for the moment ...

After false starts and incremental gains, scientists crack the problem that made breathing impossible. Will answers come fast ...

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Haunted by the cystic fibrosis patients he could not help, one Iowa doctor commits his life to understanding what is broken deep inside their cells.

Longevity, biohacking, quantified self, neurotech: these are all words that, quite frankly, were not in my vocabulary until ...