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Echinacea helps banish colds. Echinacea has no effect on colds. The verdict seems to shift with each new scientific study of the herbal remedy. In the latest twist, a review...

The facts -- The list of ideas for easing heartburn is long and filled with home remedies, many unproved. But one of the simplest, chewing gum, may be among the...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon began a weeklong Africa trip devoted to Darfur by pleading with Sudan on Monday to ensure the human rights of its citizens. Ban also...

She has a thing for cream cheese and long walks in the park. Like many New Yorkers, she is well-fed, well-groomed and well-medicated (for her thyroid and kidney troubles). At...

Over the past six weeks, the Taliban has driven government forces out of roughly half of a strategic area in southern Afghanistan that American and NATO officials declared a success...

Years ago, back before children and bulk shopping, back when running out of something meant a separate errand, I stole a roll of toilet tissue from the office restroom. It...

Dr. Edward N. Brandt Jr., who oversaw the nation's initial response to AIDS as the top-ranking doctor in the government in the early 1980s, died Aug. 25 at his home...

Rabbi Judah Nadich, a leader of Conservative Judaism who as Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's adviser on Jewish affairs battled the deplorable conditions faced by Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps after...

Sixty years ago, Jackie Robinson was playing his first season with the Dodgers, the Yankees lost after 19 straight victories and Perry Como topped the Billboard charts with "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba"...

When President Bush is asked what he plans to do when he leaves office, he often replies curtly: "I don't have that much time to think beyond my presidency" or...