DEAR DR. ROACH: You recently wrote that “nearly everybody born before 1957 had measles and mumps (but not rubella).” I was born in the early 1950s, so I fall into this category. A few years ago, at my request, my primary care physician did a test to check for immunity for the MMR ...
When I read the shocking news of the assassinations of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, along with the attempted murders of state Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, it felt like watching a tragic political thriller unfold in real time. The Hoffmans miraculously ...
Weeks before the election last year, Jason Zugai, the vice president of United Steelworkers Local 2227, pulled then-U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick aside at a Donald Trump rally here in Westmoreland County and asked him to meet with him and the local union regarding the then-proposed deal ...
Dear Annie: Every summer, my husband “Jake” and I spend a week at his parents’ lake house in Wisconsin. It’s a beautiful spot — right on the water, with pine trees, hummingbirds and a little dock where Jake used to fish as a kid. When we first started dating, I actually looked forward ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband had a nonstop coughing incident for a night and day after a feast, which landed him in the emergency room. He was found to have extremely low sodium levels (118-120 mEq/L), confusion, and a lot of heartburn. They are treating him for the low sodium by holding back his ...
Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, resigned from their positions on the Democratic National Committee. This could be great news. I don’t really know, because ...