Health
Life-saving face transplant performed in Poland
Doctors in Poland say they have performed an urgent total face transplant on a 33-year-old man whose face was torn off in an accident which also crushed his jaws. Doctors at the Oncology Center in Gliwice said the 27-hour operation was performed May 15, just weeks after the accident. The ...
Wyoming teen pregnancy rates decline
Wyoming's teen birthrate dropped by nearly 15 percent between 2007 and 2012, but officials are unclear as to why. Ashley Busacker is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wyoming assignee. She says the decline could be because of strong pregnancy prevention messages or increased use of birth control. Her ...
Sisters ejected from Pa. mall over cancer hats
Three sisters say they were kicked out of a suburban Philadelphia mall after refusing to remove profanity-laden hats expressing their hatred of breast cancer. Zakia Clark and Tasha Clark had been at the King of Prussia Mall on Sunday shopping for funeral dresses with a third sister, Makia Underwood. Their ...
6 kids among 7 injured in south China attack
A mentally ill man attacked six primary school students and a woman with a cleaver in the latest of a string of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, authorities said Wednesday. All seven victims were in stable condition and a suspect was apprehended, according to a spokeswoman from the Maoming city government ...
UNMC shows off its new eye institute in Omaha
The University of Nebraska Medical Center is showing off its new $30 million eye institute. The grand opening celebration for the Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute is being held on Wednesday. The institute houses research facilities, offers treatments for macular degeneration, glaucoma and other degenerative eye diseases, and provides eye ...
Corrections team wins Kansas weight loss contest
A team of Kansas Department of Corrections workers are the biggest losers in Gov. Sam Brownback's weight loss challenge. The corrections employees, who work at the women's prison in Topeka, bested more than 1,000 five-member teams from around the state. The corrections workers shed nearly 265 pounds — about 19 ...
US city rejects water fluoridation
The mayor of Portland, Oregon, has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city's drinking water. With more than 80 percent of the expected ballots counted late Tuesday night, the Multnomah County election website showed the fluoride proposal failing, 60 percent to 40 percent. Rejection of the ...
House panel seeks to curb military sexual assaults
Determined to check the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the armed forces, a House panel is poised to approve a series of revisions to longstanding military law. They include stripping commanding officers of their unilateral authority to change or dismiss a court-martial conviction and requiring that service members found ...
UC hospitals face second day of worker walkout
Workers at University of California hospitals around the state were expected to picket for a second day before an intentionally brief strike ends early Thursday. Thousands of hospital pharmacists, nursing assistants, operating room scrubs and other health care workers observed the 48-hour walkout in its first day Tuesday as green-shirted ...
Proposal to block insurance coverage for abortions
Michigan's election board is expected to consider a petition form for a proposal that would prohibit Michigan health insurance plans for covering elective abortions unless individuals or businesses buy a supplemental policy. The State Board of Canvassers could decide Wednesday whether the petition form started by a group called No ...
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