|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Genes may play role in women's orgasms
Jun 8 2005 8:37PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A woman's ability to have an orgasm is at least partly determined by her genes and can't be blamed entirely on cultural influences, new research suggests. Experts say that's likely to be interpreted as both good and bad news.
|
|
|
Scientists eye older athletes for insights
Jun 8 2005 8:37PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Plenty of research has been done on young athletes, but little is known about marathoners, swimmers and softball players over age 50. That's about to change.
|
|
|
Members of two families share kidneys
Jun 8 2005 8:36PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Two families, once strangers 400 miles apart, are now forever bonded by blood, tissue and four surgeons' knives. In transplants involving four people, an Ohio man suffering from diabetes-related organ failure received a kidney from a healthy Wisconsin woman whose sick sister, in turn, received a kidney from the Ohio man's healthy wife.
|
|
|
Peru's 'miracle baby' recovering well
Jun 8 2005 8:31PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - One week after surgery to separate her fused legs, 13-month-old Milagros Cerron was recovering quickly, with daily treatments inside a super-oxygenated hyperbaric chamber to speed her healing, her doctors said Wednesday.
|
|
|
Leaders campaign for help in poor nations
Jun 8 2005 8:30PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Nobel laureates, scientists and humanitarian groups called Wednesday for stepped up investment in new drugs, vaccines and diagnostic tests for diseases that are maiming and killing millions of people in poor countries.
|
|
|
Abbott settles patent suit over TriCor
Jun 8 2005 2:36PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Abbott Laboratories has settled a patent fight with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., maker of a generic version of TriCor, Abbott's best-selling branded cholesterol drug.
|
|
|
Woman gives birth after ovary transplant
Jun 8 2005 10:43AM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama woman gave birth this week to a baby girl after undergoing the first known successful ovary transplant in the United States.
|
|
|
Norwegians find likely source of outbreak
Jun 8 2005 10:10AM (CT)
OSLO, Norway (AP) - A chemicals factory in southeastern Norway was the likely source of an outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease that has killed 10 people and infected more than 50, experts said Wednesday.
|
|
|
EPA sued over pesticides' effects on kids
Jun 8 2005 6:35AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The government has failed to protect the children of farmworkers from the harmful effects of pesticides, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by farmworkers, environmentalists and public health advocates.
|
|
|
|
|
|