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A new drug developed by Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceutical cuts down high cholesterol levels but also risk of heart disease. In a total of nine trials, this drug also shows early indications of being able to prevent heart attack and death.

Several cast members from Disney’s hugely popular High School Musical film franchise have shared a reunion. Ashley Tisdale posted pics from the get-together on Instagram – revealing that she, Vanessa Hudgens, Monique Coleman and Corbin Bleu had all been present and correct.

A pregnant woman was sitting in a car outside her Long Island home when someone walked up and shot her multiple times, killing the woman and her fetus, police said Sunday.

The sister of Charles Manson murder victim Sharon Tate has described her elder sibling’s killers as ‘little creeps, nothing special’ as she pledged to fight for the rest of her life to make sure they remain behind bars. Debra Tate was just 16 when her sister Sharon, the actress wife of Roman Polanski, who was eight and a half months …

A federal judge in Utah issued a final ruling striking down a part of the state’s polygamy ban as unconstitutional on Wednesday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the world to challenge the threats of ISIS demands and support the Iraqi forces and the moderate Syrian opposition who are facing Islamist Militants on the front lines. In an op-ed in The New York Times, Kerry wrote that air strikes alone will not defeat Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Scientists find mixed results from oral use of colchicine for reducing complications involved in cardiac surgery, according to a new investigation published in JAMA.

A new drug could be a breakthrough in the treatment for heart failure. On Saturday, the New England Journal of Medicine released the results of a report showing the drug lowered the risk of death from cardiovascular causes, and hospitalization for new heart failure by 20 percent.

A 5-year-old surgery patient whose parents allegedly removed him prematurely from a British hospital — now the subject of a major international search by authorities concerned for his health — could be in southern Spain, British police said Saturday.

Burma’s first international beauty queen has absconded with her $100,000 crown after being stripped of her title for being rude and dishonest, organisers said on Friday. May Myat Noe’s photograph was blacked out on the Miss Asia Pacific World website, the word “dethroned” stamped alongside her name.

A Louisville coroner has confirmed a University of Louisville cheerleader who was found dead in late July died of multiple drug intoxication.