SUMMIT TWP — Three years old, the Community Health Clinic of Butler County has had thousands of visits from county residents in need of medical care.
Cese Foster, the cl...
New approach lessens noise
It drives people nuts.
Ringing. Buzzing. Hissing.
For people with tinnitus, a phantom sound only they can hear, it plagues their every waking m...
At 45, DeEtte Sauer was a dead woman walking.
She was morbidly obese, her heart disease so serious a doctor warned her to expect “an event at any time.” Eaten up by her ...
It may alter treatment
BOSTON — A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being av...
Journal looks at differences
LOS ANGELES — Could mothers be putting their children on a path toward obesity from the very first days of their lives?
A study published onl...
Device keeps airwaves open
WASHINGTON — Loud snoring may do more than irritate your spouse: It can signal sleep apnea, depriving you of enough zzzz's to trigger a car cra...
Doctors test 'beating heart' transplants
LOS ANGELES — Andrea Ybarra's donated heart was beating rhythmically by the time she awoke from the grogginess of her surgery.
Lu...
Statistics better than others
Patients entering Butler Memorial Hospital have a 40 percent less chance of dying there than a comparably sized hospitals.
Dr. Tom McGill, v...
Study: Daily dose may cut mortality
LOS ANGELES — A daily dose of baby aspirin may reduce mortality from a range of common cancers by an average of 21 percent, and the re...
Progress excites many scientists
NEW YORK — Scientists are reporting early success at transforming one kind of specialized cell into another, a feat of biological alchemy...
