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Cook County Jail has outbreak of lice, scabies

Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart says there is an outbreak of lice and scabies at the county jail and the hospital serving jail detainees. Dart said Friday he has ordered the isolation of a division of Cook County Jail and part of Cermak Hospital. Five detainees housed in the hospital's ...

Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains crash

Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said five people were critically injured and one was very critically hurt ...

Minn. House backs nursing home pay hike

The Minnesota House has voted to give nursing home workers in the state a 5-percent pay increase. The pay hike is included in a broader, $6 billion a year budget for health and human services programs that the House passed Friday night by a party-line vote of 73-61. It's one ...

Flesh-eating disease victim gets prosthetic hands

A woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease has been fitted with prosthetic hands. Aimee Copeland, 25, was fitted with a pair of hands with 24 programmable functions that will improve her dexterity, her father, Andy, told the Associated Press. Copeland, ...

Judge grants injunction in Ark. abortion ban case

An Arkansas law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a woman's pregnancy won't take effect while a legal challenge is pending, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright granted a request for a preliminary injunction against the ban, which was set to take effect in August. ...

In this Dec. 24, 2012 photo, Tiffany Burril, 22, of Vancouver, Wash., visits with their newborn baby girl Harley Gulliksen, whose birth weight was 15 ounces at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center in Vancouver. Burril's daughter was born at 27 1/2 weeks. A full-term pregnancy is 38 to 40 weeks. (AP Photo/The Columbian, Zachary Kaufman)

Tiny baby finally leaves Wash. hospital

Little Harley Gulliksen has gone home after five months in the neonatal intensive care unit at a Vancouver hospital. She weighed just 15 ounces and measured 10 inches when she was born prematurely on Dec. 20. Her arm was smaller than an adult's pinky finger, The Columbian reported (http://is.gd/0BXYe9). The ...

Officials: Approximately 50 people injured in Conn. train collision, 4 with serious injuries

Officials: Approximately 50 people injured in Conn. train collision, 4 with serious injuries.

Wis. camp gets cleaning after kids get sick

A YMCA camp in western Wisconsin has been cleaned after more than 50 children from a Minnesota school district were sickened with norovirus. A group of children from Akin Road Elementary in Farmington, Minn., became sick after visiting the YMCA Camp Pepin near Stockholm Monday through Wednesday. A second group ...

Ala. Supreme Court reinstates $3.2 million verdict

The Alabama Supreme Court has reinstated a $3.2 million malpractice verdict awarded to the estate of a Montgomery woman who died in 2005 after being treated at the Baptist East Emergency Room in Montgomery. Lauree Durden Ellison had visited the Baptist Medical Center-East emergency room, operated by the Health Care ...

Mo. lawmakers pass budget patch for kids' program

Legislation passed in the closing hours of Missouri's annual session Friday could patch a hole in the state budget for early childhood programs and some health care initiatives. Legislators gave final approval to two measures, each of which would order the transfer $55 million of general revenues into a newly ...

Senate Medicaid battle leaves GOP majority split

An Arizona Senate battle over expanding Medicaid revealed a fractured Republican majority that is likely to be exposed next in the House of Representatives as it takes up Gov. Jan Brewer's top priority. Thursday's daylong Senate fight between conservative Republican senators and five GOP moderates who joined Democrats to vote ...

Illinois Sen. William Haine, D-Alton, argues medical marijuana legislation while on the Senate floor during session at the Illinois State Capitol Friday, May 17, 2013, in Springfield Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Illinois Senate approves medical marijuana bill

Illinois lawmakers agreed to legalize the use of medical marijuana on Friday under a plan that's being billed as the strictest in the nation among states that have authorized the drug's medicinal use, though it was unclear whether the Democratic governor plans to sign it. The plan authorizes a pilot ...

A look at Mo. legislative action during 2013

The Missouri Legislature concluded work Friday on its 2013 session. Here's a look at what passed and what failed. WHAT PASSED: ABORTION Requires a physician to be present when administering the initial dose of an abortion-inducing drug. HB400. BENEVOLENT TAX CREDITS Reinstates expiring tax credits for certain charitable donations, such ...

Santa Fe marijuana dispensary robbed at gunpoint

Authorities are looking for three men who robbed a licensed medical marijuana distributor in Santa Fe on Friday. Lt. William Pacheco with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office says three men armed with handguns entered the New Mexico Top Organics dispensary around 10:45 a.m. and tied up the two employees ...

Ohio AG certifies medical marijuana petition

A proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio has cleared an initial step to get before voters. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine certified a summary of the proposal on Friday and said the submission contained the 1,000 valid signatures required for the effort to move forward. A group ...

New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony, left, goes up for a shot against Indiana Pacers' Paul George in the second half of Game 5 of an Eastern Conference semifinal in the NBA basketball playoffs, at Madison Square Garden in New York, Thursday, May 16, 2013. The Knicks won 85-75. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Pacers not talking about changes, Hill's status

The Indiana Pacers head into Game 6 against the New York Knicks in unfamiliar territory. Point guard George Hill is out with a concussion, NBA rules requiring him to pass a concussion test before he can play again. The Pacers have no idea whether that will come in time for ...

House OKs major changes to state cancer institute

The Texas House has approved a dramatic overhaul of the state's troubled $3 billion cancer-fighting agency, including replacing its entire, 11-member board. The lower chamber used a simple voice vote Friday to give preliminary approval to one of the most-watched bills in the Texas Legislature. It mandates sweeping changes to ...

Woodson says he's look for fit in Raiders visit

Charles Woodson pushed back a visit to Oakland to pursue a reunion with the Raiders because extending his career in the NFL isn't his only mission. The 2009 NFL Defensive Player of the Year would've traveled to the Bay Area from Denver after meeting with the Broncos on Wednesday, but ...

Cardinals pitcher gets another injection

St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jake Westbrook has received another elbow treatment, the Associated Press has learned, likely pushing back his return. The right-hander is on the 15-day disabled list with elbow inflammation and had been scheduled to throw Friday. He told the AP he had an injection to his elbow ...

NEW JERSEY HOSPITAL IS THE COSTLIEST IN THE NATION

c.2013 New York Times News Service BAYONNE, N.J. — The most expensive hospital in America is not set in Beverly Hills or in New York’s Upper East Side. It is in a blue-collar town 11 miles from Midtown Manhattan. Based on the bills it submits to Medicare, the Bayonne Medical ...

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