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ATLANTA — Advocates for transgender children worried a recent decision by Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to stop offering gender-affirming care may start a trend among the state’s providers, while advocates on the ...Read more

The assisted living facility in Edina, Minnesota, where Jean Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011, looked lovely. “But then you start uncovering things,” Peters said.

Her mother, Jackie Hourigan, widowed...Read more

DEAR ABBY: My parents have been divorced for almost 30 years. My father is still furious with my mother, and she is indifferent toward him.

My son is about to graduate from high school, and both grandparents want to ...Read more

Q: My kids' friends are already talking about their families' summer vacation plans. With a high-stress career and crazy schedules for everybody in the household, it's been several years since we've been able to take a ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I started a new job a year and a half ago. It's in a small office. My boss and I are the only employees. I enjoy the job very much, but there's an aspect of it that has really started to wear on me. Increasingly...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California is heading toward another record year for cases of Valley fever, the disease caused by fungal spores linked to cycles of drought and precipitation.

There were 3,123 reported cases of Valley ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In December, Stanford School of Medicine colleagues Dr. Nathan Lo and Mathew Kiang got to talking.

Childhood immunization rates were slowly but steadily falling nationwide, from 95% in the years before the...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Another person once close to Justin Bieber has offered an explanation for ongoing concerns about the pop singer’s mental health and the state of his marriage, amid the 31-year-old’s public ...Read more

Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer caused by a buildup of abnormal plasma cells in the bone marrow. As the abnormal plasma cells accumulate, they crowd out healthy cells and cause symptoms such as bone pain and ...Read more

One of my first jobs as a registered dietitian was with the School Food Service Program in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I helped educate schools on nutrition guidelines and traveled around the state to evaluate school feeding ...Read more

Eboni Tomasek expected to take home her newborn the day after he was born in a San Jose hospital. But, without explanation, hospital staff said they needed to stay a second night. Then a third. A nurse said her son had ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I'm in my early 40s and have been working hard since my mid 20s. I have a nice house that my wife and I are trying to pay off and two kids. We live pretty comfortably, but by no means are we well off.

My dad is...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm pretty certain that I have Raynaud's disease. I develop white, burning and tingling hands if I don't keep warm, even with heavy gloves on. I notice it on the golf course during the wintertime if I'm ...Read more

More than half of folks with Type 2 diabetes say they're obsessively worried about developing diabetes-related complications, according to an International Diabetes Foundation survey. Well, two new studies may offer you an...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: The obsession with sexual content has become dominant in our news coverage and advertising campaigns. We are bombarded and desensitized. My teenagers are puzzled by my concern...Read more

People with high blood pressure that is uncontrolled or poorly treated with most medications may benefit from a new drug that is showing promise in clinical trial results, according to a study published Wednesday in the ...Read more

Illinois’ first measles case of the year was in an unvaccinated adult in downstate Marion, according to the state health department.

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced the first measles case Wednesday �...Read more

Kentucky has reported its second case of the measles this year, state officials confirmed Thursday in a press release.

In March, a child traveling through the state was diagnosed with the disease at a health care facility...Read more