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NEW YORK — For years, scientists have known people who use neti pots can become infected with a brain-eating amoeba if they use the wrong kind of water. On Wednesday, researchers linked a second kind of deadly amoeba to nasal rinsing.

As measles cases pop up across the country this winter — including several in California — one group of children is stirring deep concerns among pediatricians: the babies and toddlers of vaccine-hesitant parents who are delaying their child’s measles-mumps-rubella shots.

After my grandma retired from her job as a cashier at Pangles (which later became Rays, and is now Chief Supermarkets), she enthusiastically began a new career. In her 70s, she had business cards made with her new professional title listed beneath her name and photo. The cards read: Pauline Hire, The Cookie Lady.

Elizabeth MacDonell, who was born into a horse-and-buggy world and lived until the eve of the Atomic Age, possessed what a biographer described as “a strong sense of the historic.”

LIMA — The 30th annual Irish Day Parade will take to the streets of Lima on March 16.

LOS ANGELES — “Oppenheimer,” a solemn three-hour biopic that became an unlikely billion-dollar box-office sensation, was crowned best picture at a 96th Academy Awards that doubled as a coronation for Christopher Nolan.

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Encephalitis is a disease referring to the inflammation or swelling of the brain. Broadly, it can happen because of infections, including viral infections, or the immune system acting up.

It’s often silent but can be a deadly killer. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a genetic condition that occurs in 1 in 500 people.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Detecting a heart murmur on your own can be tricky. A murmur is an extra heart sound that can be heard by a stethoscope.