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Doctors leave stroke patient without a single treatment option

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DEAR DR. ROACH: A dear friend of ours was diagnosed with lung cancer and subsequently had a stroke. Since then, he was told that he had disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and that there wasn’t any treatment for it. The doctors don’t want to do surgery for the cancer because they’re afraid that he might have another stroke, so he’s been left without options. They told him that he could spend his time going from doctor to doctor or go home and be with his family for whatever time he has left. Does all this sound reasonable to you? Any light you can shed on this would be ...

AI bots are busting loose. Have we seen this movie before?

Columns

As an old-school newshound — meaning I can remember typewriters — I am familiar with the old newsroom saying, “If you don’t like the news, just wait a few minutes.” Lately, I find myself waiting more than a few minutes for another shoe to drop in a present-day saga widely referred to as the “Hugging Face” breach. Or perhaps you’ve heard it referred to as the “rogue” OpenAI agent, although I still have questions about just how rogue it was, since it seems to have been doing only what it was designed to do, like it or not. The story began July 21, when tech giant ...

Renovo, Pa. goes “rustic”

Letters to the editor

Dave Dowling Wellsboro A year ago (3-01-25) I wrote a Letter to the Editor in the Lock Haven Express titled “Renovo, Pa — My Hometown.” The subject was based on the idea of having the Mail Pouch Tobacco on the side of the 11th street building repainted. At the time the sign was in poor, weather worn condition in need of a “professional” paint job. My letter was throwing hints (and Thank You) to all the nonprofit organizations that were responsible for the many awesome large Murals placed around town including the Renovo signs at each end of town and the town clock. Each ...

Another reminder that now is the time to build resilience

Our View

If your social media feed is anything like ours, odds are you have seen pictures and accounts of the floodwaters which surged through much of the Williamsport area on Sunday. Here’s a shocking fact that you might not have seen: according to the National Weather Service in State College, Sunday’s deluge was Williamsport’s 5th rainiest day in recorded history. That puts Sunday’s 5.28 inches of rain, in a 24-hour period, below only 1972’s Agnes (8.66), 2011’s Lee (6.76), 1999’s Dennis (6.29), and 2004’s Ivan (5.58). You may ask why this fact is shocking. After all — ...

Dear Annie: Neighbor’s barking dog keeps baby awake

Columns

Dear Annie: My husband and I recently welcomed our first baby, and we are exhausted but overjoyed. We live in an apartment building, and after weeks of trial and error, we finally started getting our daughter onto a somewhat predictable sleep schedule. The problem is our next-door neighbor’s dog. It barks at everything: people in the hallway, delivery workers, car doors and even the elevator bell. Just when I get the baby down for a nap, the barking starts and wakes her up. Then she becomes overtired, cries for hours and has trouble sleeping at night. I understand that apartment ...

What have we become?!

Letters to the editor

Jim Hironimus White Hall In the world as we now know it, you may openly hate anyone for their political affiliation, their religion or lack of belief, the color of their skin, their sexual preferences and on and on. Our politicians are made up of people that stay in office to keep getting richer at the expense of their voters. We need term limits and age limits in both the government and the Supreme Court. Both parties basically “suck!” I didn’t like Biden for letting so many people in the country and not giving them a way to become citizens. I have far too many things ...