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BERLIN – A shortage of electricity in Europe’s power grid caused blackouts across the continent, halting trains, trapping people in lifts and plunging millions of homes into darkness. Swathes of Germany and France were badly hit by the cuts late Saturday. Austria, Belgium, Italy and Spain were also affected. A …

Men with prostate cancer don’t always need treatment, but there is no reliable way to tell which cancers are deadly and which are not. Now, new research suggests a blood test widely used to screen for the disease can identify which patients are more likely to die from it — …

NEW ORLEANS – People with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease had dramatically lower rates of heart attacks, death and stroke if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found. The results, reported Sunday at an American Heart Association conference, were hailed as a watershed …