Chris Brown Checks Into Rehab For Anger Managment After Stint In Jail Over...
Source: Nancy Dillon / New York Daily News Chris Brown has checked into a rehab facility for anger management after allegations that he broke a man’s nose landed him in jail, his lawyer said Tuesday....
View ArticlePresident Obama To Speak On Health Care Amid Rumors Of Fix
Source: Michael O’Brien, Maggie Fox and Frank Thorp / NBC News President Barack Obama is expected to announce a patch to his signature health care law to address mounting concerns over canceled...
View ArticlePolicy Cancellations: Obama Will Allow Old Plans (VIDEO)
Bowing to pressure, President Barack Obama on Thursday announced changes to his health care law that would give insurance companies the option to keep offering consumers plans that would otherwise be...
View ArticleQuitting The N.F.L.: For John Moffitt, The Money Wasn’t Worth It
Source: Ken Belson / The New York Times SEATTLE — John Moffitt chugged mugs of black coffee and talked almost giddily about how, the week before, he called John Elway, the head of football operations...
View ArticleDorsett Told He Has Signs Of CTE
Tony Dorsett, who rushed for more than 12,000 yards with the Dallas Cowboys, was told Monday that he’s been diagnosed with signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
View ArticleHealth-Care Debate Takes Back Seat As The Long-Uninsured Line Up In Rural...
Source: Stephanie McCrummen / The Washington Post BREATHITT COUNTY, Ky. — On the campaign trail, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was still blasting the new health-care law as unsalvageable. At...
View ArticleSerial Infector Gets 39 Years In Hepatitis Case
Source: Holly Ramer / NBC News CONCORD, N.H. — A traveling medical technician was sentenced Monday to 39 years in prison for intentionally infecting dozens of patients in four states with hepatitis C...
View ArticleNew Research Disputes Fat But Fit Claim
Source: Linda Carroll / NBC News If you’re overweight or obese, it may pay off to shed even just a few extra pounds. Excess weight can knock years off your life even if your cholesterol, blood pressure...
View ArticlePresident Obama To Launch New Health Care Law Campaign
Source: David Jackson / USA Today President Obama and his aides will seek to rally public support for his embattled health care plan in the coming weeks, starting with a White House event Tuesday....
View ArticleScientists Find Aggressive New HIV Strain
Source: Liz Neporent / ABC News Swedish scientists have identified a new strain of HIV that appears to progress much faster than most previously identified variations of the virus. The new strain,...
View ArticleMarijuana May Be Contaminated With Mold, Mildew
Source: AP / CBS News WEST HAVEN, Conn. – The microscope at the University of New Haven, set at 10-times magnification, shows a marijuana leaf covered with dozens of tiny bumps. It’s mold, and someone,...
View ArticleFaced With Too Few Physicians, California Offers Free Medical School
Source: CBS News RIVERSIDE, Calif. — In addition to getting more Americans to sign up for private insurance, the health-care overhaul will also get more people to sign up for Medicaid. In California,...
View ArticleBlack Teen Pregnancy Hits Historic Low
Source: Donovan X. Ramsey / theGrio New data shows that, in a number of areas — teen pregnancy, violent crime and increasing gradation rates — black youths have made significant gains. Experts say it’s...
View ArticleOakland Girl Declared Brain Dead Three Days After Having Tonsils Removed
Source: New York Daily News She was just supposed to have her tonsils out, and now her heartbroken family wants answers. Jahi McMath, 13, was declared brain dead on Thursday, three days after...
View ArticleChinese Doctors Attach Hand To Foot
Source: ABC News Hand it to Chinese doctors. When Xiao Wei suffered a work accident and lost his right hand, surgeons couldn’t reattach it immediately, so they replanted it on his ankle. Doctors drew...
View ArticleSenator Harry Reid In Hospital For Observation
Source: AP / ABC 7 KGO WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in the hospital for observation after not feeling well overnight. Aides to the Nevada Democrat have released a statement. It...
View ArticleObama Administration Relaxes Rules Of Health-Care Law Four Days Before Deadline
Source: Amy Goldstein / The Washington Post The Obama administration on Thursday night significantly relaxed the rules of the federal health-care law for millions of consumers whose individual...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act Signup Deadline Today, With Exceptions
Source: Chicago Tribune For most Americans who don’t have health insurance, Monday is the deadline to sign up for coverage starting on Jan. 1 under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law. There is a...
View Article2nd Opinion For Girl Brain Dead After Routine Tonsillectomy
Source: AP / USA Today OAKLAND, Calif. — The family of a Northern California girl on life support after being declared brain dead was expected to appear with hospital officials in court Monday to...
View ArticleHPV Vaccine Gardasil Voluntarily Recalled Due To Glass Shards In Some Vials
Search: Michelle Castillo / CBS News Merck announced a voluntary recall of one lot its vaccine Gardasil, one of two vaccines approved to protect against cancer-causing strains of the human...
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