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Venezuela VP: Chavez could be sworn in by court
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez could be sworn in by the Supreme Court later on if he's not able to take the oath of office before lawmakers next ...
FDA proposes sweeping new food safety rules
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed the most sweeping food safety rules in decades, requiring farmers and food companies to be more ...
Lilly 2013 profit forecast tops expectations
Eli Lilly and Co. unveiled a better-than-expected 2013 earnings forecast Friday, in part because the pharmaceutical company expects growth from ...
HBO to make adaption of AIDS play
Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo will star in an HBO movie adaptation of "The Normal Heart," the play about the onset of the AIDS crisis in New York ...
US job market shrugs off fears of 'fiscal cliff'
The U.S. job market proved resilient in December despite fears that a budget impasse in Washington would send the economy over the fiscal cliff and ...
NY homes for elderly under scrutiny after Sandy
A nursing home and an assisted living facility are under scrutiny by state officials and an advocacy group after The Associated Press disclosed that ...
Mass. Gov. proposes new compounding pharmacy rules
Gov. Deval Patrick on Friday proposed tighter regulations on sterile compounding pharmacies following a deadly nationwide meningitis outbreak linked ...
Poll: Fight obesity crisis but keep the junk food
Everyone could use a little help keeping those New Year's resolutions to slim down. But if it means the government limiting junk food, the response ...
2012 was worst year for whooping cough since 1955
The nation just suffered its worst year for whooping cough in nearly six decades, according to preliminary government figures. Whooping cough ebbs and ...
Correction: Obit-Schwarzkopf story
In a story Dec. 28 about the death of U.S. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, The Associated Press reported erroneously the date of Schwarzkopf's birth. He was ...
Pakistani girl shot by Taliban leaves UK hospital
Three months after she was shot in the head for daring to say girls should be able to get an education, a 15-year-old Pakistani hugged her nurses and ...
France's Bardot threatens exile over elephants
Sex symbol-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is threatening to join actor Gerard Depardieu in Russian exile unless France halts the ...
Indian court to rule on generic drug industry
From Africa's crowded AIDS clinics to the malarial jungles of Southeast Asia, the lives of millions of ill people in the developing world are hanging ...
Kan. case highlights legal issues for sperm donors
Experts believe a Kansas sperm donor being sued by the state for child support put himself in a precarious legal position by getting involved in a ...
Disputes brewing over Hugo Chavez's inauguration
President Hugo Chavez is due to be sworn in for a new term in less than a week and his closest allies still aren't saying what they plan to do if the ...
New law points to Philippine church's waning sway
Twenty-six years after Roman Catholic leaders helped his mother marshal millions of Filipinos in an uprising that ousted a dictator, President Benigno ...
US drones kill senior Taliban figure in Pakistan
An American drone strike in Pakistan has killed a top Taliban commander who sent money and fighters to battle the U.S. in Afghanistan but had a truce ...
Trial set to begin in Boston over pregnancy drug
At first, the Melnick sisters thought it was just a cruel coincidence that two of them were diagnosed with breast cancer. But when two more sisters ...
Health union alliance could threaten larger rival
Two health care unions are joining forces in a move that could threaten a powerful rival's dominance and fuel a new round of labor tensions.
Lawsuit alleges horses mistreated on HBO's 'Luck'
Several of the horses used on HBO's canceled series "Luck" were drugged, underweight and sick during production, an animal rights worker who oversaw ...
CDC: 1 in 24 admit nodding off while driving
This could give you nightmares: 1 in 24 U.S. adults say they recently fell asleep while driving. And health officials behind the study think the ...
CDC: Women getting unneeded Paps post-hysterectomy
Many women don't need to be screened for cervical cancer after a hysterectomy, but a new study says most get the test anyway. A government survey ...
Flu? Malaria? Disease forecasters look to the sky
Only a 10 percent chance of showers today, but a 70 percent chance of flu next month. That's the kind of forecasting health scientists are trying to ...
State trying to make sperm donor pay child support
A Kansas man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple after answering an online ad is fighting the state's efforts to suddenly force him to pay child ...
Clinton leaves hospital after treatment for clot
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was released from a New York hospital on Wednesday, three days after doctors discovered a blood clot in her ...