Do you know if your boat is safe and ready for the water? U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 63 is offering free vessel safety checks at Huntington Park in Newport News starting next month. The checks will be offered at the boat ramp from 7 a.m. until noon every Saturday from April 16 to Oct....
Surgeons at Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News now can teach using video technology inside two of the hospital's newly renovated operating rooms. The new rooms, inside the hospital's main building, were created by combining existing undersized operating rooms that were constructed...
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The Daily Press takes a year-long look at childhood obesity in Hampton Roads.
Greg Simon was on his way to visit a friend in San Francisco in 2014 when he called his doctor to get the results of a long-overdue physical. Your cholesterol and PSA tests are fine, his doctor said. But, he added, you have leukemia. "What I learned is, you have no idea what kind of patient you...
Two new studies bolster evidence that feeding babies peanuts or other allergy-inducing foods is more likely to protect them than to cause problems. One study, a follow-up to landmark research published last year, suggests that the early prevention strategy leads to persistent, long-lasting results...
Surgeons in Cleveland say they have performed the nation's first uterus transplant, a new frontier that aims to give women who lack wombs a chance at pregnancy. In a statement Thursday, the Cleveland Clinic said the nine-hour surgery was performed a day earlier on a 26-year-old woman, using a uterus...
A landmark study suggests that testosterone treatment is no fountain of youth, finding mostly modest improvement in the sex lives, walking strength and mood of a select group of older men. The long-awaited results from a rigorous, government-funded study are the first solid evidence of whether...