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Drug czar: Use of illegal drugs is down
Feb 9 2007 11:48PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Illegal drug use in the United States has dropped sharply since 2001 but abuse of prescription drugs remains a problem, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said Friday.
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Albuquerque named America's fittest city
Feb 9 2007 11:11PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Flanked by the Sandia Mountain and home to a cottonwood forest that runs through the heart of the city, sunny Albuquerque has been named America's fittest big city by Men's Fitness magazine.
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Students wear masks to try to stop flu
Feb 9 2007 7:56PM (CT)
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Hundreds of students on the University of Michigan campus are part of a research study that could change the way the world looks at influenza.
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P&G to launch 5-minute tooth whitener
Feb 9 2007 7:51PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Procter & Gamble Co., convinced that there's plenty of growth left in the tooth-whitening market, soon will launch a new version of its Crest Whitestrips aimed at folks who would like a brighter smile, but don't want to spend a lot of time on it.
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Fertility treatment raises defect risk
Feb 9 2007 7:50PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Babies conceived through fertility treatments have higher rates of birth defects, but the overall risk is so small that it should not keep couples from having children this way, doctors are reporting.
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Half of India's kids are malnourished
Feb 9 2007 7:37PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Nearly half of India's children are malnourished, putting the country in the same league as some of the world's poorest countries _ even though fewer infants are dying and more pregnant Indian women are seeing doctors, according to government data released Friday.
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Genes may play bigger preemie birth role
Feb 9 2007 7:36PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Genetics may play a greater role than previously thought in accounting for black women's higher rate of premature births, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found.
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CDC finds dramatic rise in drug deaths
Feb 9 2007 6:57PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Unintentional fatal drug overdoses in the United States nearly doubled from 1999 to 2004, overtaking falls to become the nation's second-leading cause of accidental death, behind automobile crashes, the government reported.
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FDA approves limb-saving salvage shunt
Feb 9 2007 5:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A plastic shunt that can temporarily rejoin the severed blood vessels of soldiers wounded on the battlefield won federal approval Friday, following an expedited review.
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2 N.C. hospitals warn of virus outbreak
Feb 9 2007 1:10PM (CT)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Two hospitals are asking visitors, especially children, to stay away until they control an outbreak of a highly contagious stomach virus that has sickened patients and staff members.
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