Wednesday I had a short but sweet visit from my oldest sibling Leah, age 65, and her son Paul Jr. They also brought sister Verena along. With everyone’s Christmas card to family and neighbors I sent along a slip of paper with a week out of the year to have them do something special for ...

WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday — a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal-to-human transplants. Towana Looney is recovering ...

Bedbugs (Cimex lectularius) have posed a problem in the United States since Colonial times. Colonists brought these pests with them on sailing ships. Once here, these biting insects flourished until DDT became ubiquitous as a pesticide. Families would often put DDT around a bed to keep the ...

To include or update items in the weekly Health News list, email information to tmunnell@tribtoday.com or afox@tribtoday.com. The deadline for inclusion in that week’s list is noon Sunday. BOARD TO MEET: Mahoning County Mental Health and Recovery Board will hold a Program and Policy ...

For centuries, medicinal herbs have played a role in traditional and modern medicine. They have been used across cultures for their healing properties. These natural remedies offer therapeutic benefits that support physical and mental well-being. Today, they are more popular than ever. ...

Summer is the best time for eating fresh, just-out-of-the-garden vegetables. Green beans, peas, corn, okra, squash, I could go on and on. Many of these plants produce seeds that we love. All plants yield seeds by way of sexual reproduction and this is our second in a series of articles on ...