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Butler Memorial Hospital has added a new weapon to its medical arsenal. The hospital announced Tuesday that it has begun using the MONARCH bronchoscopy system from Johnso...
May 29, 2025 Health
WASHINGTON — Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world's top weat...
May 28, 2025 National News
NEW YORK — Marian Rivman is pushing 80. Harriet Luria is a proud 83. In this trio, Carol Leister is the baby at 62. Together, they have decades of experience with yoga. O...
May 24, 2025 Health
A huge push for more dental professionals in the 1970s led to dental schools filled to the brim with eager dentists-in-training. A decade later, dental schools became con...
May 24, 2025 Local News
Excess body weight can raise the risk of certain cancers, leading researchers to wonder whether blockbuster drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound could play a role in c...
May 22, 2025 National News
County commissioners agreed Wednesday, May 21, to take county-funded emergency medical training to the next level. Commissioners voted to begin developing a paramedic tra...
May 21, 2025 Government
WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials on Friday endorsed the first blood test that can help diagnose Alzheimer’s and identify patients who may benefit from drugs that can mo...
May 16, 2025 Health
A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is growing and thriving after getting an experimental gene editing treatment made just for him. Researchers describ...
May 16, 2025 Health
Butler Health System, part of the Independence Health System, is close to breaking even, after multiple successive quarters of losses due to the combined impacts of the C...
May 14, 2025 Health
There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded. An estimated 80,000 people died from overdose...
May 14, 2025 National News
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