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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 4-year-old niece recently was diagnosed with neuroblastoma after not feeling well for a few weeks. Her parents noticed her belly was swollen, so they took her to the doctor after it didn’t resolve on its own. I’d never heard of this form of cancer before. What is neuroblastoma? Do children typically have surgery to treat this cancer? What can we expect?

Remember the werewolf diet? It made the rounds about 10 years ago and told adherants to fast according to lunar cycles, claiming to help you lose two to six pounds in the span of a day. Or how about the five-bite diet? This one says to skip breakfast and take only five bites of lunch and dinner.

Yellowstone Steak Night

In early February 1899, as finances for Lima’s first hospital were being firmed up, one of the city’s first doctors made what the Allen County Republican-Gazette described as a “splendid offer” to the hospital’s board.

LIMA — Artist Chris Brokamp will be performing at the final Patio Party at 19 Hawthorne and manager Chad Hughes is excited to celebrate the finale.

LIMA — Kendra Henderson has been helping to organize the Caribbean American Festival with a committee of 15 for about eight years now.

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There’s nothing quite like Pink Cashmere to put the happy face on a summer that has turned oppressive from heat and humidity.

The water was winning. Fed by the heaviest Sierra snowmelt in decades, it gushed down the narrow valley’s walls and rushed across the trail in front of me. The bravest and most foolish hikers plunged on through, ice-cold whitewater up to their knees, a steep rocky drop below.

We’ve been lucky with more rain and cooler weather this summer. My friend Terry in Arizona has not been as fortunate.