Health
CDC: Fecal Bacteria Common in Swimming Pools
Health officials say they found fecal bacteria in more than half of the water samples taken from Atlanta-area public swimming pools last summer. And they say contaminated water leading to disease outbreaks is becoming common nationwide. (Ma...
Washington's Wilcox undergoes foot surgery
Washington guard C.J. Wilcox has undergone surgery on his left foot to stabilize a stress fracture that bothered him for much of his junior season. The school says Wilcox had the surgery on Friday. Wilcox's surgery stabilized the fifth metatarsal in his left foot. He is expected to make a ...
Bozeman woman dies of hantavirus
State health officials say a 20-year-old Bozeman woman recently died of hantavirus while a Carbon County man in his 40s has been diagnosed with the disease. Park County Coroner Al Jenkins tells the Livingston Enterprise that Rhea Lynn Baxter of Bozeman died May 11 of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome at Billings ...
14-year term for Calif. doc promising cancer cure
A Los Angeles doctor was sentenced Friday to 14 years in federal prison for bilking patients out of more than $1 million by promising them that an herbal supplement she hawked could cure late-stage cancer and other diseases. U.S. District Judge Robert Timilin also ordered Dr. Christine Daniel to forfeit ...
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 boys, said she was battling cancer just a few years after a man was convicted of her rape. "It was a little box, a ...
Wis. hospitals work to reduce infection rates
Patients at Wisconsin hospitals had a lesser chance last year of getting two types of major infections than patients nationwide, according to a state report. But their chance of getting a third type of infection was greater. The state Division of Public Health's 2012 report looked at four types of ...
Franks pushes ban on US abortions after 20 weeks
An Arizona congressman wants a nationwide ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Republican Rep. Trent Franks had introduced a bill that would ban such procedures only in the District of Columbia. But following the Kermit Gosnell case, he plans to amend it so it would apply nationwide. Gosnell ...
'The Audience' to be shown in NJ nursing home
A special audience will get to see Helen Mirren onstage next month in London in the play "The Audience" — some retired show business veterans in a New Jersey nursing home. The live cinema event company BY Experience said Friday it will show a live performance of Peter Morgan's play ...
Crucial evidence to be secret in Litvinenko probe
A coroner overseeing a British inquest into the 2006 poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko ruled Friday he has to exclude evidence on whether the Russian state was involved in the killing, drawing bitter criticism from the former Russian security agent's widow and adding further doubts to an already much-delayed probe. ...
Recalls this week: Space heaters, bean bag chairs
A line of space heaters with a design flaw that can ignite nearby objects are among this week's recalled consumer products. Others include bean bag chairs and hooded shirts. Here's a more detailed look. SPACE HEATERS DETAILS: Portable infrared radiant quartz electric space heaters made by Dongguan Hong-Hwa Electric Co. ...
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