Lemon balm can be consumed as a tea, taken as a supplement or extract, or rubbed on the skin in lotions. Lemon balm essential oil is also popular in aromatherapy. This article discusses the potential uses of lemon balm. It also covers the risk factors, side effects, and more. Uses of Lemon Balm Supplement use should be individualized and vetted by a healthcare professional, such as a registered dietitian nutritionist, pharmacist, or healthcare provider....

The Super Eagles centre-back joins the Falmer Stadium outfit on a two-year deal after departing Mainz 05 at the end of the season. Balogun will join Cameroon’s Gaetan Bong in Brighton’s books for the 2018-19 season. And manager Chris Hughton has expressed excitement with the options and experience the defender brings to his team. “I am delighted to welcome Leon to the club. He will add more depth to our defensive options, and I am pleased to get our first piece of business done so early in the summer,” Hughton told club website....

Carrey is a one-man synthesis of movie comedy: he mixes the physicality of the silent comics, the wisecrackery of screwball comedy and the warp-speed extravagance of the classic cartoons. Doesn’t this make him the greatest comic of all time, a mutation of Buster Keaton, Richard Pryor and Bugs Bunny? No, it just makes him three times as crazy as any other comic, including Steve Martin and Robin Williams. The craziness lies in Carrey’s sheer esthetic impudence: anything goes, and goes fast....

China has, as yet, paid no price. And that, inevitably, emboldens tyrannical regimes in their pursuit of dictatorial rule at home and abroad. It was true of the Soviet Union, and it is true of China. Xi Jinping, China’s despot, has taken advantage of the necessary inward turn of Western national governments to increase China’s hold on Hong Kong, passing the “Security Law” that, in violation of the terms of the end of Britain’s lease on the island colony, puts Beijing in direct control....

But after two days in the witness chair, Ashcroft resembled not so much the presumptive attorney general as a pinata at a kids??? birthday party. While the outcome is all but decided, the hearings continued as advertised: as a scrimmage for Democrats, liberal interest groups and presidential aspirants to rally their constituencies and play themselves into shape for the larger fights over Supreme Court nominations that are almost certain to break out in the Bush II era....

Nancy Reagan has entrusted Martin Anderson, Reagan’s former economic adviser, and a small team of editors and researchers to go through the letters. Writing left-handed and in a cramped, neat style, Reagan opined to friends and strangers about almost every aspect of his life. He gives advice about public speaking; he describes his relationship with foreign leaders. In a 1986 letter to an old Hollywood friend, Laurence Beilenson, he describes how he came to embrace the missile-defense system known as Star Wars....

Parents or other family members may often detect this abnormal pupil in children. It may be noticed in a darkened room or sometimes spotted in a photograph, where instead of the typical “red reflex,” the eye with leukocoria appears white or another color. This article examines the symptoms, causes, diagnostic factors, and treatments associated with leukocoria. If your child develops this condition, here’s what to know from the start....

This article discusses conditions that may present as leukopenia, as well as causes, tests, treatment, and when to see a healthcare provider. Symptoms of Leukopenia Leukopenia may not present with any symptoms. However, underlying conditions that can cause leukopenia can be severe. Furthermore, if you don’t have enough leukocytes, medical problems can worsen and infections can cause substantial harm to the body. Symptoms of conditions associated with leukopenia include: Fever, chills, sweats Sore throat, congestion Fatigue Sores that take longer than usual to heal Infected wounds Loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea Weight loss Enlarged lymph nodes Enlarged liver or spleen Mucosal bleeding and small bruises on the skin...

If leukoplakia is mild, it often goes away without any intervention. But leukoplakia is considered a precancerous condition, so it should not be taken lightly. Oral cancers can form near the patches of leukoplakia, and the leukoplakia lesions themselves may show indications of cancerous changes. Leukoplakia and Cancer Most of the time, the white patches from leukoplakia are not considered cancerous and are therefore deemed benign. In some cases, though, it has been found that leukoplakia is an early sign of mouth cancer....

Capped three times by Argentina, Alario will join Greek defender Panagiotis Retsos at the BayArena pending confirmation from the Argentine Football Association. Dortmund 6/1 to win Bundesliga Leverkusen identified the prolific 24-year-old as Javier Hernandez’s successor and have now met his reported €18million release fee. Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon have previously been linked with Alario, who scored his first international goal in a 6-0 friendly win over Singapore in June....

A sluggish start under former boss Niko Kovac was almost forgotten as Hansi Flick led a charge to glory. Bayern clinched its latest silverware with a 1-0 win at relegation-threatened Werder Bremen on Tuesday, with Robert Lewandowski scoring the winner in the first half. Here is a look at some of the records and personal bests the club established in a history-making campaign: Eight in a row Bayern’s dominance reached a new peak as it extended its streak to eight successive Bundesliga triumphs....

Lewandowski continues to be linked with a move to Real Madrid at the end of the season, despite Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge insisting the striker is not for sale. Heynckes has dismissed the transfer talk as mere speculation and has tipped the Poland star, who has 174 goals in Germany’s top flight, to move beyond his tally of 220 in the coming seasons. “I know the Spanish media, there is a lot of speculation,” he told a news conference....

Hamilton, who is currently midway through the Formula 1 racing season, participated in an interview which took an unexpected twist in the memorial garden to Princess Diana at Kensington Palace in London this month. Opening the interview, Hamilton was asked by broadcaster Steve Jones for Britain’s Channel 4 network: “Who’s your favorite royal? Mine’s Kate. She seems very classy.” At this Hamilton seemed slightly taken aback and responded that “Diana has always been my favorite royal....

The cause of Howell’s death, which occurred on Tuesday, is under investigation by authorities. The Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn said it’s being probed as a possible suicide, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. District officials released a statement explaining that the principal of the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Marlon Ball, was placed on leave. District spokeswoman Lisa Deffendall spoke on Wednesday about the situation and the grief felt in the community....

The managers' cards said "Manager" in fancy script across the picture, and this was the first time that young fans came across a cardboard rendition of Jim Leyland coming out of wax packs (he'd been featured in the 1986 Topps Traded set, but that was only available as a box set). Hands on elastic-waistbanded hips, foot on the top dugout step, mustachioed expression of concern, and a wristwatch: Leyland fit the part....

MOCK DRAFT: Suns stay close to home with No. 1 pick Ball held a pre-draft workout in front of several NBA scouts last week at the Professional Basketball Combine at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. The 19-year-old left UCLA in December without playing a single game. Ball’s father, LaVar, removed him from the school after he had been suspended indefinitely for a shoplifting incident during a team trip to China....

It’ll be 1993 all over again. Today’s congressional Democrats claim to be chastened. ““We were just throwing programs at problems,’’ says would-be House Speaker Dick Gephardt. Hence Gephardt’s ostentatiously unambitious ““Families First’’ agenda. (Who could oppose ““technical assistance’’ for Police Athletic Leagues?) Let’s assume Gephardt isn’t faking it, and that any Democratic majority will be so slim that centrists will have the leverage to check liberal chairmen like New York’s Charles Rangel, who would run Ways and Means....

While people differ about how to define American liberalism, there is a broad consensus to begin with the Declaration of Independence. Human beings are endowed with rights—or certain spheres of liberty that can be neither “alienated” nor abridged. These include “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Governments are founded to “secure” these rights. Echoing the Enlightenment-era arguments of the Englishman John Locke, humans are by nature “free and independent”; think of them in a “state of nature,” able to do and choose what they wish....

Those watching did not know he had spent the previous night retching, ending what he referred to as his thirty-record. It was the first time he had thrown up since he was in the army. This was new. He suffered from low-grade nausea and a lack of appetite, but until now he had been spared the worst of that particular side effect. He consulted with his doctor, who advised he get his electrolytes checked before risking anything strenuous....

Bowden is one of many doomed characters who drift across the pages of “The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands,” Hartley’s lyrical, searing memoir of his years as a roving Africa reporter. The Kenya-born son of a British soldier turned peripatetic development worker, Hartley fell into journalism in his early 20s, just as the end of the cold war, pressures for democratization and tribal rivalries were tearing apart fragile societies across the continent....