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Advocates: Cities passing rules targeting homeless
Army veteran Don Matyja was getting by alright on the streets of this city tucked in Southern California suburbia until he got ticketed for smoking ...
Arizona getting to know Carmona in Senate race
Arizona voters have seen Richard Carmona in combat fatigues, in a surgeon's mask and gown, wielding a pistol as a SWAT team member and most recently ...
Redskins QB Griffin leaves loss with concussion
After taking a shot to his helmet while scrambling to try to avoid a sack, Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III stayed face-down for a ...
Pharmacy linked to outbreak issues wide recall
The pharmacy that distributed a steroid linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis has issued a voluntary recall of all of its products, calling the ...
From North Korea's Oz to its forgotten cities
From here, Pyongyang can seem like a dream. At what passes for rush hour on a Wednesday morning, there are few sounds in Kaesong's main traffic circle ...
Beijing to give clearer indication of air quality
Beijing authorities have completed a network of monitors that will more accurately measure air quality in the smog-ridden city after being pushed into ...
A star Rockets rookie faces his fear of flying
Royce White couldn't wait any longer. Last weekend, just before the Houston Rockets opened training camp, he called his agent and told him he had a ...
CDC: Meningitis outbreak death toll rises to 7
Health officials say the death toll in a rare fungal meningitis outbreak across several states has risen to seven. In updated figures posted to its ...
Waiting, worrying amid deadly meningitis outbreak
Patsy Bivins tossed and turned all night after finding out the steroid shot she received to ease her chronic back pain could instead threaten her life
Steroid-related meningitis cases rise to 47
As the tally from a deadly meningitis outbreak rose Friday, health officials identified the medical clinics across the country that received steroid ...
UK health secretary backs 12-week abortion limit
Britain's new health secretary has said he favors reducing the limit for women to have abortions from 24 weeks of pregnancy to 12, reigniting a ...
Germany: Frozen fruit blamed in vomiting sickness
Authorities say a single batch of deep-frozen strawberries appears to have been behind an outbreak of gastroenteritis in eastern Germany that hit more ...
Sneezing sea lion dies after treatment at NY zoo
A sea lion that had been receiving treatment for sneezing has died unexpectedly at a New York zoo. The 6-year-old male sea lion was named Puff. It was ...
Suit: Fired staffer doubted 9/11 memorial safety
A former manager at the Sept. 11 memorial was fired for raising health and security concerns at one of the most security-conscious places in the ...
Fungi blamed for meningitis rarely cause trouble
The two kinds of fungus linked to a meningitis outbreak are found in plenty of places and rarely make people sick. People inhale one kind, ...
Problems found at peanut butter plant in 2010
The Food and Drug Administration found what it called "objectionable conditions" at a New Mexico peanut butter plant in 2010, two years before the ...
Docs say spine shots for steroids are usually safe
Millions of people get steroid shots in their backs to relieve pain. Now they are probably wondering if it's safe. In 23 states, hundreds, possibly ...
Intense pain, confusing diagnosis mark meningitis
A week after her annual steroid shot for back pain, Janet Russell began getting unbearable headaches. A fever followed. Doctors admitted her to the ...
Romney's Medicare plan raises cost questions
Mitt Romney's Medicare plan won't try to control costs by limiting the payments that future retirees would use to buy private health insurance, aides ...
Japanese firm buys Montana pharmaceutical company
A Japanese pharmaceutical company is acquiring Bozeman-based LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals in a $60 million deal to expand its vaccine division, Takeda ...
Clinics rush to warn patients of tainted steroid
Health providers are scrambling to notify patients in nearly two dozen states that steroid shots they got for back pain may have been contaminated ...
Study: Free birth control leads to fewer abortions
Free birth control led to dramatically lower rates of abortions and teen births, a large study concludes. The findings were eagerly anticipated and ...
Outbreak spotlights risks from custom-mixed drugs
Two people blinded in Washington, D.C., in 2005. Three dead in Virginia in 2006 and three more in Oregon the following year. Twenty-one dead polo ...
Romney shifts to center as his confidence grows
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is shifting sharply to the political center as he begins to deliver a closing argument aimed at a slice ...
Biopsy: Williams' 2nd kidney tumor benign
North Carolina says Roy Williams' second kidney tumor isn't cancerous. The school announced test results Thursday night, a day after the Hall of Fame ...