Health

Fate of LA pot shops left to voters
Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against ...
Flesh-eating disease victim gets prosthetic hands
A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday ...
Cancer, rape fraud case bowls over Mich. community
Carol Connell remembers well the gift she gave Sara Ylen, a friend seemingly forced to bear too much misery. Ylen, a Michigan mother of two young ...
Cultural attitudes impede organ donations in China
China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country's transplant system said Friday that ...
WHO says single yellow fever shot is enough
The World Health Organization says a yellow fever booster vaccination given 10 years after the initial shot isn't necessary. The U.N.'s global health ...
Soldier gets life without parole in Iraq killings
An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress ...
Correction: New Virus story
In a story May 15 about a new SARS-like virus spreading from patients to health care workers in Saudi Arabia, The Associated Press reported ...
Feds propose overhaul for child care centers
Federal health officials proposed Thursday to overhaul 500,000 child care centers across the country, beefing up safety standards including background ...
Saudi officials expand labs to track deadly virus
Saudi Arabia says it has dedicated nine additional laboratories to help investigators track a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS that ...
Penn State defends medical changes after report
Penn State coach Bill O'Brien is fervently disputing suggestions raised in a report that player medical care has been compromised after the team ...
El Salvador court hears arguments in abortion case
El Salvador's Supreme Court heard opening arguments Wednesday in a landmark abortion case in which a woman suffering from kidney failure and lupus has ...
Shrinks, critics face off over psychiatric manual
In the new psychiatric manual of mental disorders, grief soon after a loved one's death can be considered major depression. Extreme childhood temper ...
Obama planning June 3 mental health conference
President Barack Obama is planning a mental health conference next month in response to gun violence. Presidential spokesman Jay Carney said Obama and ...
Stem cells recovered from cloned human embryos
Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as ...
St. Louis doctor with cerebral palsy offers hope
Dr. Jan Brunstrom-Hernandez gently but sternly admonishes a teenage cerebral palsy patient who clearly hasn't been doing his exercises, stressing the ...
Google CEO discloses 'rare' vocal cord problem
Google CEO Larry Page has disclosed a problem with his vocal cords that makes it difficult for him to speak and breathe occasionally, but he says he ...
Parents sue SC, hospital over child's sex surgery
A couple filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state of South Carolina for what they say was an unnecessary sexual assignment surgery performed on a ...
Study questions how sharply US should cut the salt
A surprising new report questions public health efforts to get Americans to sharply cut back on salt, saying it's not clear whether eating super-low ...
EU court finds Swiss assisted-suicide laws vague
An elderly Swiss woman who would rather end her life now than decline further in health found sympathy Tuesday from the European Court of Human ...
Women have more options for breast cancer surgery
One of the world's most glamorous women had an operation that once was terribly disfiguring — removal of both breasts. But new approaches are ...
Turkish womb transplant patient loses baby
A hospital says a Turkish woman who was the first to get pregnant with a transplanted donor womb has had her pregnancy terminated. Derya Sert was born ...
Women have new options for breast cancer surgery
Treating breast cancer almost always involves surgery, and for years the choice was just having the lump or the whole breast removed. Now, new ...
India announces low-cost rotavirus vaccine
The Indian government announced Tuesday the development of a new low-cost vaccine proven effective against a diarrhea-causing virus that is one of the ...
Higher prices for MS drug help drug firm Merck
Higher prices for its multiple sclerosis drug Rebif helped German pharmaceutical and high-tech materials company Merck KGaA post a 54 percent rise in ...
Saudi Arabia: 4 news cases of SARS-linked virus
Saudi Arabia has confirmed four new cases of a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS that appears centered in the Arabian Peninsula but that ...