4 Hours in Huntington: how the heroin epidemic choked a city
By CLAIRE GALOFARO He found the woman slumped over the steering wheel, an empty syringe on the floorboard and her skin dulling to a purplish blue. Dave McClure, an EMS…
Health & Wellness
Does China still harvest organs of executed? Doctors divided
A Canadian patient’s receipt of a kidney transplant after waiting just three days during a recent visit to China raised an immediate red flag among surgeons at the Montreal-based Transplantation…
Democrats seek repeal of ban on federal funding of abortion
By DAVID CRARY
Poll: Young Americans overwhelmingly favor LGBT rights
By SARAH GRACE TAYLOR and EMILY SWANSON Young people in America overwhelmingly support LGBT rights when it comes to policies on employment, health care and adoption, according to a new…
9/11 worker pleads for medical coverage with billboards
A New Jersey man who spent three weeks looking for survivors in the days after the 9/11 attacks is using billboards in a push to have his kidney disease added…
Prince Harry says world must revive urgency in AIDS fight
Prince Harry is warning against complacency in the fight against AIDS, saying inaction has set in as the epidemic has drifted from the headlines and people live longer with the…
Finally allowed 2nd child, older Chinese parents turn to IVF
By LOUISE WATT China’s decision to allow all married couples to have two children is driving a surge in demand for fertility treatment among older women, putting heavy pressure on…
Once unthinkable in US, drug shoot-up rooms get serious look
By DAVID KLEPPER Across the United States, heroin users have died in alleys behind convenience stores, on city sidewalks and in the bathrooms of fast-food joints — because no one…