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Potential drug for depression moves forward

By Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON For years, physicians have been inching their


Save A Leg lecture

Save A Leg lecture BOARDMAN Dr. Lawrence A. DiDomenico, managing partner of Ankle & Foot Care


AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HITS 100 YEARS

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK The American Can- cer Society — one of the nation’s


Bee sting banished tremor

Q. Within a week of having a reaction to a bee sting (the skin was hot, red, swollen and blistered),


EMS Week events

EMS Week events YOUNGSTOWN/WARREN The Humility of Mary Health Partners Mobile Intensive Care


$1 million initiative pays $50,000 each for third and fourth year

Area high school grads are eligible


Farm donates eggs

Farm donates eggs YOUNGSTOWN For the sixth year, Trillium Farms is helping to fill the tables of


Benefit to help Marshalls cope with crushing farm accident

Russell Marshall of Berlin Center, with his wife, Melissa, and son, Jacob, at Canterbury Villa of Alliance where he is undergoing rehabilitation after a near-fatal farm accident in March that crushed his body and tore his arm off.


Grapefruit lowers blood pressure

Q. From about 1985 till about 2005, my blood pressure ran about 150/90, and I needed


Awareness month

Awareness month WARREN Warren Mayor Doug Franklin has designated May as GBS/CIDP Awareness Month


Holistic spa night

Holistic spa night HOWLAND Dannielle MacDuff, a holistic health practitioner, is offering a


Thousands walk Warren Relay for Life despite downpour

Gloria and Edward Sersich celebrate with their daughter Esther Pelayo, right, all of Warren in the Relay for Life on Courthouse Square Friday night. Edward is suffering from stage 4 bladder and lymphoma cancer and completed the entire first lap without the use of his wheelchair.


Hands-only CPR

Hands-only CPR HERMITAGE, PA. The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Bureau of EMS have


Chocolate health benefits challenged

Q. Is there any evidence for the health benefits of chocolate? From what I’ve read, there have never


Awareness walk

Awareness walk WARREN The sixth annual Survivors of Suicide Awareness Walk in memory of loved