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Some teens face drug-testing parents
Sep 19 2006 7:59PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Teen drug users know better than to cross paths with police officers walking the beat or school principals roaming the hallways. Now there's a new enemy in the generational war on drugs: drug testing-parents.
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Okla. narrows focus of TB exposure probe
Sep 19 2006 7:54PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma City-County Health Department said Tuesday it is narrowing the focus of its investigation of persons who might have been exposed to tuberculosis by coming into contact with a health care worker who has been diagnosed with the disease.
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FDA advisers endorse steel spinal disks
Sep 19 2006 7:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A stainless steel device meant to replace natural but diseased shock-absorbing disks in the neck should receive government approval, government health advisers said Tuesday.
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Hospital offers to pay infants' families
Sep 19 2006 7:52PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A hospital where two premature infants died after being given an overdose of a blood thinner has offered to financially compensate their families, the hospital CEO said Tuesday.
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Study: ADHD cases linked to lead, smoking
Sep 19 2006 7:52PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - About one-third of attention deficit cases among U.S. children may be linked with tobacco smoke before birth or to lead exposure afterward, according to provocative new research.
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Study: U.S. kids not so active in gym
Sep 19 2006 7:52PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Researchers report that in the typical high school gym class _ where there are a few jumping jacks before a halfhearted game of softball _ students are active for an average of just 16 minutes.
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More potent strain of E. coli feared
Sep 19 2006 7:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health officials are investigating whether a more potent strain of E. coli is behind an outbreak linked to fresh spinach that has sickened at least 131 people, half of whom have been hospitalized.
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WHO chief: Bird flu funds still needed
Sep 19 2006 2:41PM (CT)
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - The World Health Organization still lacks half the funds it needs to help countries fight bird flu as more human cases are expected in the coming months, the acting director-general said Tuesday.
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E. coli in salad greens has many sources
Sep 19 2006 1:44AM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - On its way to supermarket shelves, bagged spinach passes from field to packing plant to store, with several opportunities along the journey for it to become contaminated with deadly E. coli bacteria.
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NYC Judge: Patent belongs to 3 Israelis
Sep 19 2006 12:26AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a blow to ImClone Systems Inc. and a triumph for a prominent Israeli research institution, a judge ruled Monday that three scientists from Israel are the true inventors of a process used in the delivery of the blockbuster cancer drug, Erbitux.
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