Health

LONDON - The world's most advanced tuberculosis vaccine failed to protect babies against the infectious disease, according to a new study in South Africa.

CHICAGO - Any fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved "Little House" books knows how the author's sister Mary went blind: scarlet fever.

CHICAGO - It really does get better for gay and bisexual teens when it comes to being bullied, although young gay men have it worse than their lesbian peers, according to the first long-term scientific evidence on how the problem changes over time.

Dear Dr. Roach: Can you tell me how WPW syndrome is detected? Sometimes my heart beats fast and wobbly. My whole chest sometimes goes up and down. I went to a cardiologist. My stress test was good. My echocardiogram was good.

MONTREAL - A Montreal hospital says it didn't compromise the care of average Quebecers when it admitted a Kuwaiti woman for emergency surgery and charged her country's government nearly $200,000.

VANCOUVER - When Trudi the robot is plugged in and armed, it sounds more like a space shuttle launch system than a germ-killing machine.

TORONTO - Dara-Lynn Weiss was initially thrilled by the chance to write an article for Vogue magazine about how she helped her seven-year-old daughter lose 16 pounds.

Leah Gabriel was a physically active X-ray technician working in Victoria. She ran marathons, cycled to work and pushed herself hard enough to buy her first house at age 28.

GENEVA — The World Health Organization has for the first time recommended limits on children’s daily consumption of sodium, which it hoped would help in the global fight against diet-related diseases becoming chronic among all populations.

Dear Dr. Roach: I’ve seen a lot of information about high blood pressure and what numbers are good and bad, but I haven’t seen any on low blood pressure. Could you please discuss low blood pressure? M.S.