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Shutdown impact: Defense workers return to work
A government shutdown is having far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others. Mail is being delivered. Social Security and Medicare benefits continue to flow. But vacationers are being turned away from national parks and Smithsonian museums, and that's having a ripple effect on those businesses and communities that ...
Argentine leader to undergo head surgery
Argentina's president will undergo surgery on Tuesday to surgically remove blood between her brain and skull that has been causing new and worrying symptoms, her physicians said. The doctors who discovered the subural hematoma had ordered Cristina Fernandez on Saturday to rest for a month. In some patients, such blood ...
Indianapolis woman falsely claimed son had cancer
An Indianapolis woman has agreed to plead guilty to forgery for collecting nearly $1,500 in donations by falsely claiming her 10-year-old son had cancer. The Indianapolis Star reports (http://indy.st/1fdnQRT ) 33-year-old Stephanie Weddle will face up to four years in community corrections under the plea deal. Prosecutors agreed to drop ...
Governor: Europe won't block 2 Missouri executions
Missouri will move ahead with two planned executions despite efforts in Europe to block a common anesthetic from being used in the procedure, Gov. Jay Nixon said Monday. German company Fresenius Kabi produces almost the entire supply of propofol, but the European Union is considering possible export limits as part ...
Court: Medical board's discussion violated FOI law
The state Medical Examining Board held an illegal secret meeting in 2009 as it was being asked to decide whether it was ethical for doctors to take part in lethal injection executions, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Monday. The court unanimously upheld decisions by a lower court and the state ...
Latest mosquito tests show no West Nile in RI
State environmental officials say the latest tests in Rhode Island for West Nile virus in mosquitoes have found no sign of the disease. The Department of Environmental Management said Monday that 83 mosquito samples from 35 traps set statewide during the week of Sept. 23 were also negative for eastern ...
2 Americans, German-American win Nobel in medicine
Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for illuminating how tiny bubbles inside cells shuttle key substances around like a vast and highly efficient fleet of vans, delivering the right cargo to the right place at the right time. Scientists believe the research could eventually ...
Report: W.Va. has highest rate of fatal overdoses
West Virginia leads the nation in the rate of fatal drug overdoses, and a report released Monday says that rate is now six times higher than it was about a decade ago. But the Trust for America's Health also gives West Virginia high marks for trying to tackle the problem, ...
Wos readying for questions from NC legislature
After months of outside scrutiny on how they've operated two new computer systems and hired high-priced contract workers, North Carolina health agency leaders are preparing for tough questions from the people who give them their money to spend. Two General Assembly oversight committees scheduled public meetings Tuesday to hear from ...
Hospital: Argentine president will have surgery Tuesday to remove blood squeezing her brain
Hospital: Argentine president will have surgery Tuesday to remove blood squeezing her brain.
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