| | 87 salmonella cases reported across Quebec
8:21PM CT
MONTREAL, Quebec (AP) - A provincial health official says that an unusually high number of people have fallen ill with salmonella food poisoning across Quebec. | | |
Court: US can block mad cow testing
12:42PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday. | | |
Drunken-driving deaths fall in 32 states
Aug 28 2008 11:54PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Drunken-driving deaths fell in 32 states in 2007, the government reported Thursday, but alcohol-related fatalities increased among motorcycle riders in half the states. | | |
New Katrina death tally: Half of victims 75 and up
Aug 28 2008 4:05PM CT
CHICAGO (AP) - As New Orleans residents warily track another threatening storm, a new report presents the clearest picture yet of deaths from Katrina in Louisiana. Of the nearly 1,000 who died, almost half were 75 or older, according to researchers. | | |
Tracking Alzheimer's-linked protein in live brains
Aug 28 2008 1:45PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists for the first time have peered into people's brains to directly measure the ebb and flow of a substance notorious for its role in Alzheimer's disease. | | |
Study: 12 percent of Indian deaths due to alcohol
Aug 28 2008 12:19PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Almost 12 percent of the deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related — more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says. | | |
 Cells change identity in promising breakthrough
Aug 28 2008 5:20AM CT
NEW YORK (AP) - Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases. | | |
 Police: Disabled Palestinian siblings hidden away
Aug 27 2008 5:06PM CT
BEIT AWWA, West Bank (AP) - A Palestinian couple locked their disabled son and daughter away for decades out of fear they would ruin the marriage prospects of a healthy child if discovered, police said Wednesday. | | |
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