As a group, Americans fall far short on the recommended amount of fiber people should eat every day. This deficiency can be especially harmful when you’re trying to manage diabetes and possibly lose weight.

When you have diabetes, increasing your daily fiber intake has many benefits, including improving your heart health and helping to maintain blood sugar control. According to a research review published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, a diet that’s high in fiber may even help lower your A1C test results, which measures your average blood sugar control over two to three months.

“The average amount of fiber consumed in the United States is only 10 to 20 grams per day,” says Meredith…

A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection.

In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity.

Maldacena’s idea thrilled physicists because it offered a way to put the popular but still unproven theory of strings on solid footing — and because it solved apparent inconsistencies between quantum physics and Einstein’s theory of gravity. It provided physicists with a mathematical Rosetta stone, a ‘duality’, that allowed them to translate back and…

A man convicted of aggravated murder for fatally shooting his ailing wife in her hospital bed will be sentenced Friday after a prosecutor recommended he receive a six-year prison term— instead of a possible life sentence — because of the unique circumstances of the case.

John Wise, 68, has said he was acting out of love when he shot his debilitated wife inside an Akron hospital in August 2012 after she suffered an aneurysm and appeared to be in pain. Mercy is not a defense to a murder charge in Ohio.

Wise, of Massillon, was convicted on charges including aggravated murder with a firearm specification, which could carry a life sentence.

Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh called Wise’s actions illegal and dangerous but said the circumstances of the case warrant leniency. She has recommended that Wise be sentenced on a lesser crime.

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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) assailed conservative groups Thursday for opposing the latest budget deal, saying they had crossed a line and lost their credibility.

“This budget agreement takes giant steps in the right direction,” Boehner said at a press conference. “But when groups come out and criticize something they’ve never seen, you begin to wonder just how credible those actions are.”

Boehner has been reticent in the past to criticize conservative outside groups, such as Heritage Action and Club for Growth. Some of the groups have had a considerable influence on the tea party faction among House Republicans, and were the rallying force behind the effort to either defund Obamacare or shut down the federal government.

Roman Tritz’s memories of the past six decades are blurred by age and delusion. But one thing he remembers clearly is the fight he put up the day the orderlies came for him.

“They got the notion they were going to come to give me a lobotomy,” says Mr. Tritz, a World War II bomber pilot. “To hell with them.”

The orderlies at the veterans hospital pinned Mr. Tritz to the floor, he recalls. He fought so hard that eventually they gave up. But the orderlies came for him again on Wednesday, July 1, 1953, a few weeks before his 30th birthday.

This time, the doctors got their way.

The U.S. government lobotomized roughly 2,000 mentally ill veterans—and likely hundreds more—during and after World War II, according to a cache of forgotten memos, letters and government reports unearthed by The Wall Street Journal. Besieged by…

One of the most powerful applications of imaging science is the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities.

“Imaging provides an ability to depict things that previously were only able to be diagnosed by surgery,” says Marta Hernanz-Schulman, M.D., director of Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Some conditions can be treated before birth.

For example, when the male urethra—the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside—is obstructed, the bladder can become massively dilated. Urine may back up the ureters, causing severe kidney damage. By inserting a needle through the uterine wall into the fetal bladder, under the guidance of ultrasound, the obstetrician can drain the bladder into the amniotic fluid surrounding the baby, thereby relieving pressure on the kidneys.