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Hundreds of children starving in Niger
Jul 24 2005 9:18PM (CT)
MARADI, Niger (AP) - Nasseiba Ali is the face of hunger in Niger. The 20-month-old girl weighs just 12 pounds, and her eyes are clouded at night, one of the symptoms of her chronic malnourishment. Nasseiba may survive because her grandmother was able to get her to a feeding center. But aid groups despair that so many other children are dying because the world was slow to respond.
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Officials puzzle over abortion pill deaths
Jul 24 2005 3:54PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal health investigators are baffled: Why have four California women died from a bloodstream infection after using a controversial abortion pill?
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Scientist who linked smoking, cancer dies
Jul 24 2005 3:53PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Sir Richard Doll, the British scientist who first established a link between smoking and lung cancer, died Sunday. He was 92.
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Scientist who linked smoking, cancer dies
Jul 24 2005 1:03PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Sir Richard Doll, the British scientist who first established a link between smoking and lung cancer, died Sunday at age 92, Oxford University said.
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Kickball catching on with adults
Jul 24 2005 1:00PM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Don Radell stood on the pitcher's mound, his socks hoisted to just below his knees. One black, one red, a tiny bit of skin showing between the tops of the socks and his baggy shorts. His Little League son said it brings good luck, so why not?
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Hundreds of children starving in Niger
Jul 24 2005 11:34AM (CT)
MARADI, Niger (AP) - Nasseiba Ali is the face of hunger in Niger. The 20-month-old girl weighs just 12 pounds, and her eyes are clouded at night, one of the symptoms of her chronic malnourishment, along with sparse, wiry hair, brittle and malformed nails, and a deceptively prominent belly.
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Maggot treatment saves Mich. woman's foot
Jul 24 2005 8:38AM (CT)
BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) - Barbara Enser wasn't very comfortable at first with the idea of using maggots to clean the wound on her right foot. But if it meant saving it from amputation, she was willing to give it a try.
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