Phenylketonuria

The 2013 Mount Airy March for Babies event Saturday will mark 75 years nationally of the March of Dimes mission of advocacy and research on behalf of premature babies and infants born with birth defects. Northern Hospital of Surry County Volunteer and...

FARGO, N.D. - Every now and then, someone emails me a story that is circulating on the Internet or Facebook. One day, the information was about artificial sweeteners. I happened to have a can of diet soda next to me. After reading the article, I could...

Lauren Marshall of Aberdeen will compete next week for the title of Miss South Dakota. Marshall, 19, Miss Dakota Rose, will play the piano for her talent competition. Her platform is phenylketonuria awareness. Showtime will be 7 p.m. June 20-21 and...

Dr. Lester Breslow, the UCLA researcher who became known as "Mr. Public Health" because of his research emphasizing the beneficial effects of avoiding certain behaviors, such as smoking, overeating and failing to exercise regularly, has died. He was 97....

The high school seniors thought meeting President Obama was the coolest part of their trip to Washington. That was until a handful of them walked away with tens of thousands of dollars in prize money at Tuesday evening’s Intel Science......

As a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II, Richard Koch chose his life's work after reading one of the few books in the camp's meager library — the medical biography "The Doctors Mayo." Liberated in 1945 after 13 months in captivity, he...

Low-calorie sweeteners are used in thousands of foods and beverages and are so popular with consumers that individual packets, used for coffee and tea and to sprinkle over cereal, are best-known by their packet colors: pink, blue, yellow and now, with the...