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Ear seeding is the more than 2,000-year-old practice of sticking seeds from the Vaccaria plant onto specific points on the inside and outside of your ears. Today, most practitioners use tiny metal beads attached to adhesive stickers. The Chinese medicine treatment, formally known as auricular acupressure, is basically acupuncture without the needles: a plus, given…

WASHINGTON — Amid tensions in the Middle East, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was hospitalized, including spending four days in the intensive care unit, according to two senior administration officials. The Pentagon did not inform senior officials in the White House’s National Security Council of Austin’s hospitalization until Thursday — three days after he arrived…

Police arrived at a distraught mother’s house the day after her daughter died at Kettering General Hospital.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio prosecutor says it is not within his power to drop a criminal charge against a woman who miscarried in the restroom at her home, regardless of the pressure being brought to bear by the national attention on her case. Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said in a release issued…

People walk past a billboard advertisement for YouTube in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 27, 2019. Sean Gallup | Getty Images YouTube is taking steps to fight against medical misinformation, especially when it comes to finding immediate tips on how to handle an emergency. The company on Wednesday introduced a feature called First Aid Information Shelves,…

Steelworkers in need of cash were among the men of Merthyr Tydfil who became medical guinea pigs.