Abscessed Tooth

In the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks is a Fedex employee who survives a plane crash and finds himself stranded alone on a deserted island.  After years he has learned how to survive and “make fire”.  At one point during this nail biter, he...

Due to the very nature of our line of work in veterinary medicine, we are exposed to pain and suffering many times every day in our furry friends. From trauma, elective surgery, non-elective surgery, tumors, fractures, periodontal disease, abdominal...

MLB Team Report - Chicago White Sox - INSIDE PITCH It was a seventh-inning infield single that bordered on being an error, but at this point, Sox infielder Jeff Keppinger would take it. Hitting .188 and in danger of losing a starting job when Gordon...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Chicago White Sox - INSIDE PITCH It's all about the middle right now for the White Sox offense, and the only one who seems to be pulling his weight is Alex Rios. At the beginning of the season, the last concern...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Chicago White Sox - INSIDE PITCH There are some growing concerns about Paul Konerko in what could be his final season with the White Sox -- and maybe his final season in baseball if the 37-year-old decides to...

At the Nathan Davis Elementary School library on a recent Wednesday, Angela Worth, a dental hygienist, brushed cloudy white goo onto a second-grader's molars. Twenty seconds under a bright blue light and the cavity-preventing substance — called a...

The German shepherd was lashed to a fence inside an abandoned junkyard. With no food and water, he began drinking his own urine. Part of his right ear was torn or bitten off. A too-small collar was embedded into his skin. Lesions and scabs dotted his back...

The naïve accuse those who want to reform Medicaid of caring only about costs and not about the poor who benefit from the $384-billion-a-year program.  If only it were true that the 50 million Americans —924,000 Kentuckians — now on...

I do realize that it is not February yet, but it is just around the corner. The A.V.M.A. (American Veterinary Medical Association) has designated February as “National Pet Dental Month.” February is the month for the A.V.M.A. to promote...

Dr. Diana Zschaschel leaned over Boogie's wheelchair to check his teeth with a mirror and probe. Boogie wailed. "It's OK, Boogie," said his father, Vergery Grubbs Sr. He reached over to take his son's curled hand. "Keep your mouth open. You're doing a...

Rolland "Joe" Correll was a former Liberty High School basketball star working at Bethlehem Steel when he was drafted during World War II. Several days after D-Day, June 6, 1944, he hit the Normandy beach as a 19-year-old Army corporal with the 9th...

Wednesday December 30, 1998      Novelist Russell Banks, filmmaker Paul Schrader and small-town New England cop Wade Whitehouse are soul mates in a tortured hell on Earth. Each of these middle-aged men is haunted--in ways either real or imagined,...