Uric acid is a waste product formed when the body breaks down purines, which are found in foods like red meat, seafood, and alcohol. The kidneys filter and remove uric acid through urine. However, ...

Eleven people have been infected with Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "fleshing-eating" bacteria, and four of them died, ...

Video shot by an eyewitness shows a swollen Guadalupe River, as rescue efforts for flood victims were temporarily halted on Sunday (July 13) due to another wave of severe weather, prompting high-water ...

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The victim was rushed to Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, US, showing ...

Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. Send review requests to [email protected]. Columns archived at ...

Fifteen years after a female chimpanzee named Julie first stuck a blade of grass into her ear and started a hot new craze ...

A person has died of the pneumonic plague at the Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, according to Northern Arizona Healthcare, the organization that runs the hospital. The patient arrived at the ...

In a news conference Tuesday afternoon in Kerr County, Gov. Greg Abbott said 161 people are still missing following deadly floods in the Hill Country, including five campers and one counselor from ...

The City of Mebane said with repairs to its water treatment plant, residents are now allowed to shower. But conversation is ...

Very few, even from amongst India’s vast contemporary intelligentsias, seem ready to accept that state’s institutional recording and documenting castes and sub-castes – what I call emblematically the ...

Ruthie Cohen has been writing for Limestone Post for going on ten years. Throughout a life of living and learning in and out of the kitchen, Ruthie has collected her own tidbits of wisdom, which she’s ...