PHOENIX (Reuters) - Former Cy Young winner Eric Gagne will continue his comeback at the Los Angeles Dodgers' minor league camp after the pitcher was among six players moved out of the team's major league clubhouse Monday. Gagne, who holds the Major League Baseball record with 84 consecutive save conversions, has been hampered by elbow injuries and a torn rotator ...

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Brian McKeever won a gold medal at the Vancouver Paralympics on Monday, less than a month after the legally blind Canadian cross-country skier lost his bid to compete in the Olympics. McKeever pulled into the lead midway through the 20km cross-country competition for visually-impaired athletes and held on to win Canada's first gold of this year's ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Adding a drug that lowers blood fats known as triglycerides to cholesterol-fighting statins provided no additional protection from heart attack, stroke and death from heart disease in patients with Type 2 diabetes, according to data from a large study. The study run by the National Institutes of Health, dubbed Accord, aimed to see if the dual-drug therapy could ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who take certain drugs for depression known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may have a higher-than-average risk of developing cataracts, a study from Canada hints. Among about 18,700 Quebec residents aged 65 and older with cataracts and 187,000 age-matched Quebec residents without cataracts, study chief Dr. Mahyar Etminan, of Vancouver Coastal Health ...