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Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have developed a high-resolution imaging tool that can identify patients at risk for glaucoma decades before the disease claims their eyesight. “This new instrument that we have designed in collaboration with biomedical engineering allows us to look at the drain structures of the eyeball …

Tonight I’ve got bronchitis, which made me think: Like me, many other celebrities have serious illnesses and I feel bad for them. But I hate the other ones who can’t stop talking about it. You’re already rich and famous — do you really need the public to identify with your …

An analysis of century-old bottles of absinthe — the kind once quaffed by the likes of van Gogh and Picasso to enhance their creativity — may end the controversy over what ingredient caused the green liqueur’s supposed mind-altering effects. The culprit seems plain and simple: The century-old absinthe contained about …