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Patty Duke the classic television and film actress was hospitalized with severe stomach pains following an organized screening of her hit film “The Miracle Worker.”

This month, the world’s first attempts at placing humans in suspended animation using a new technique will take place at the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — not for space travel, but to save lives. The technique will initially be used on 10 patients whose wounds would otherwise be lethal in an attempt to buy the surgeons some time. …

Two days after reportedly performing at Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s pre-wedding party in Florence, Lana Del Rey has shared the second song from her ‘Ultraviolence’ record.

Lack of exercise, expensive fresh produce and a lack of local food resources have all been cited as potential contributors to the obesity epidemic in the United States. While all of those are legitimate concerns, a new study suggests the price of American foods is the biggest contributor to growing waistlines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate about …

13,000 surgical students around the globe were watching yesterday as a British surgeon removed a tumour from the liver and bowel of a patient in the world’s first operation streamed live using the Google Glass device.

Adhering to a low carbohydrate vegan diet helps lower the risk of heart disease by 10 percent in addition to over four pounds of weight loss, a new study suggests. “We killed two birds with one stone – or, rather, with one diet,” said Dr. David Jenkins, the director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Modification Centre and a Nutritional …

Wiz Khalifa has been arrested in Texas for possession of marijuana. TMZ reports the rapper was flying from El Paso to Dallas when the transportation security administration (TSA) stopped him. They are said to have discovered a “green leafy substance” during a check of his luggage and person before handing Wiz over to local police.

Belgium launched a nationwide manhunt Sunday for a lone suspect in a shooting attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum as the toll in the attack rose to four dead. The attack, which came on the eve of national and European Parliament elections, led officials to immediately raise anti-terror measures and increase the protection for Jewish sites. Video of the attack …

The president and founder of Cathedral Bible College in Myrtle Beach is accused of making international students work long hours with little pay by threatening their legal status.

More than one-third of hospitals statewide lost money in 2013. More than half of the state’s hospitals had profit margins lower than 4 percent for the year, the threshold for sustainability, according to the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. It’s a trend that likely will continue statewide through 2014 and beyond, and, with that, the Corbett administration should abandon …

Authorities said an argument preceded the shooting death of a 25-year-old Indiana man who was camping in a parking lot near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. One person is in custody. Max Levine, 25, of Kokomo, was shot early Saturday morning in Coke Lot 1C, Speedway Police Lt. Trent Theobald said in a news release. He told The Indianapolis Star that …