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About 400,000 Americans may have the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia, but not know they have it, new research suggests. The study was scheduled for presentation Tuesday at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta.

Roger Ebert’s final blog posting last April ended with his hopeful sign-off: “I’ll see you at the movies.” The award-winning film critic died two days later. Visitors to the central Illinois theater that hosts the annual “Ebertfest” film festival he started now may feel like they saw him at the movies. A life-sized bronze statue of the longtime Chicago Sun-Times …

There seems to be a growing list of factors that could increase the risk of a person ultimately developing diabetes. Recently, sleep apnea was also added to the list. A new study was published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine recently. The study findings show that sleep apnea increases the likelihood of developing diabetes by 30%.

Police in Montana say a woman kicked and struck her boyfriend with a shotgun because he said bad things about her in his sleep.

Despite its rapid rise up the ranks of so-called superfoods in recent years, kale does not even make the top 10 “powerhouse fruits and vegetables”, according to a new study. Rather, watercress was the unlikely winner, packing a peppery punch with its cross-section of critical nutrients.

Separate studies have now linked the number of moles on a woman’s body to an increased risk of breast cancer while a third study has found that excessive intake of red meat could also lead to the condition.

Genetically modified mosquitoes could reduce the estimated one million deaths each year caused by malaria. An international team of scientists has developed a mosquito strain that produces mostly male offspring, leaving out the females responsible for spreading the disease.

A week after “Glee” star Cory Monteith died from a mix of alcohol and heroin, creator Ryan Murphy publicly expressed his feelings. Murphy told E!, “It’s hard to even explain how personally upsetting it is.”

It’s the wedding photo seen ‘round the world. Michael Wolber and his new bride April stand on a deserted highway as a plume of smoke billows out behind them. It’s a day Wolber’s aunt, Juliana Wood, will never forget. She said the picture is like a scene from a movie.

Authorities are trying to identify a woman who robbed a South Florida bank all while talking on her cellphone. The robbery occurred June 4 at a TD Bank branch on Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach.

Opposition to childhood vaccination continues despite the long-debunked theory that vaccines can trigger autism, plus the very real evidence recently of what happens when kids aren’t immunized. Now there’s a new study that concludes a combination vaccine commonly used in Canada presents a slightly increased risk of febrile seizures in children.