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Julianne Hough may have something more serious than a tummy ache. The "Dancing With the Stars" champ, who was briefly hospitalized last week for stomach pains, is suffering from an ovarian cyst, reports TMZ.com. Hough will require surgery to remove...

For most of us, deciding how our estates are to be distributed after our deaths probably isn't a task to be approached with enthusiasm. After all, we're not only talking about parting from this life, but also parting with everything - be it ever so...

Jimmy Kimmel may have had his appendix removed, but his sense of humor is intact. The talk show host is cheerfully returning to work Tuesday (June 26) after having to undergo an emergency appendectomy last week. "I feel much better now and am...

One does not venture far into Philip Roth's new novel, "Indignation," without learning that its principal setting is in northwestern Ohio, in a town that lies some 18 miles from Lake Erie, has a Buckeye Street, a Wine Creek running through it, and an...

Lindsay Lohan won't become "A Woman of No Importance" after all. Amidst a busy production schedule and with a wave of publicity on tap, the actress has dropped out of a co-starring role opposite Annette Bening in "A Woman of No Importance." "She doesn't...

previous episode | return to episode guides Original air date March 27, 2006 Lincolns execution and revelation With the governor denying Lincoln a stay of execution, the terrifying preparations go forward for his sentence to death via the electric...

The pianist lay unconscious in his hospital bed, bandages wrapped around his freshly shaved skull. Just days earlier, he could achieve astonishing feats at the keyboard, his hands often disappearing into a blur of energy, his body rising from the piano...

Alcoholics Anonymous didn't appear to help Lindsay Lohan after all. Amidst a non-stop schedule of partying, the "Mean Girls" actress has decided to take a break and seek help at a rehab facility, TMZ reports. "I have made a proactive decision to take...

Unless you've been rushed to the hospital in an emergency, the time to start thinking about paying the bill for hospital care comes as soon as your doctor says you need to have a test, procedure or surgery. "What patients have to pay hospitals is not set...

UMM QASR, Iraq - The hospital is mobbed. Mothers press inside the concrete structure with sons and daughters suffering from diarrhea, malnutrition, coughs and fevers. Men hobble about the lobby with crude crutches that Americans might recognize from Civil...

It's never too late for the White Sox to enjoy a victory, like Saturday night's stirring 9-8 triumph over Detroit that was capped with a four-run 10th inning and Joe Borchard's dash for home from second base on a 12th-inning infield single that broke a...

CLOSER: DUSTIN HERMANSON, Sox Who seems to be aging faster these days, Dusty Baker or Ozzie Guillen? That's an easy question, isn't it? Nothing ages a manager quicker than an unreliable bullpen. Nothing makes a team and a manager feel better about...