Q&A: More lenient lice policies bug some parents
By JENNIFER C. KERRY Over the counter products for controlling head lice are photographed in Washington, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. Some parents are scratching their heads over less restrictive head…
Diseases and conditions
Wife: Trotter was treated for aneurysm, seizures
By DON BABWIN In this Dec. 30, 2011 photo, renowned chef Charlie Trotter poses for a photo in the dining room of his restaurant in Chicago. Trotter died Tuesday, Nov.…
Tests: No poison in Chilean poet Neruda’s remains
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO FILE – This Oct. 21, 1971 file photo shows Pablo Neruda, poet and then Chilean ambassador to France, talking with reporters in Paris after being named…
Palestinians: Israel only suspect in Arafat death
By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH A Palestinian child works at a shop across from a poster of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of…
Q&A on polonium: What may have killed Arafat
By MARIA CHENG and JILL LAWLESS Palestinians walk past a mural depicting late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Shati Refugee Camp, in Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. Swiss scientists…
Swiss lab: Arafat ingested deadly polonium
By JOHN HEILPRIN FILE – In this May 31, 2002 file photo, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat pauses during the weekly Muslim Friday prayers in his headquarters in the West Bank…
Vietnam releases dengue-blocking mosquito
By MARGIE MASON In this photo taken on Sept. 1, 2013, scientist Simon Kutcher, project manager of the Eliminate Dengue Vietnam research program, blood feeds a cage of mosquitoes in…
Strep scorecard might help tell if you need a doc
By LAURAN NEERGAARD Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital Informatics program professor Dr. Kenneth Mandl, left, and Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital assistant professor Dr. Andrew Fine, stand…