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INDIANAPOLIS – A 77-year-old woman suffered a fatal stab wound while trying to break up a sword fight Thursday between her grandson and brother-in-law, police said. An autopsy determined Franziska Stegbauer died of a wound from one of the swords, police Sgt. Matthew Mount said. Both men were hospitalized with …

Dr. Thomas Lee painstakingly scrapes away spiderweb-like tentacles deep inside a premature baby’s eye, scar tissue that is pulling apart the infant’s retina. “It’s like you’re peeling back the layers of an onion,” is how Lee, of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, describes a mysterious disease’s damage to the child’s eye. …

Gloria Lenhoff has a rare genetic condition known as Williams syndrome, which causes medical problems and developmental delays. But it also let’s her memorize any song, in any language, within minutes. For Lenhoff, 54, it means an IQ of 55 and the gift of music – she can hear a …