Bangladeshi mom want twins to stay in Australia

Astronauts gear up for 2nd spacewalk of mission

An astronaut is gearing up for the first spacewalk of his career while awaiting the imminent birth of his daughter.
Modified: 11/21/09 03:45:20 AM

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Europe: Proton beams circulate in Big Bang machine

Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago, circulating beams of protons in a significant leap forward for the Large Hadron Collider.
Modified: 11/21/09 02:40:16 AM

Asian carp may have breached electronic barrier

Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday.
Modified: 11/20/09 05:24:02 PM

Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group

Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.
Modified: 11/20/09 04:29:31 PM

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Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC

Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.
Modified: 11/20/09 05:29:01 PM

4 Duke patients have drug-resistant H1N1

Four patients at Duke University Medical Center have contracted a mutated strain of the H1N1 virus.
Modified: 11/20/09 03:17:53 PM

Measure to change U. of Neb. stem-cell rule fails

The University of Nebraska's governing board on Friday voted not to place tighter restrictions on embryonic stem cell research than those outlined under federal guidelines, which were expanded after President Barack Obama took office.
Modified: 11/20/09 06:20:38 PM

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LabCorp could receive incentives to move to Greensboro

Medical-testing testing company LabCorp wants to consolidate its billing operations and could receive nearly $900,000 in taxpayer incentives if it chooses a site in Greensboro.
Modified: 11/20/09 04:24:30 PM

Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote

Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
Modified: 11/20/09 05:19:08 PM

Pfizer's Geodon gets expanded FDA approval

Pfizer Inc. said Friday the Food and Drug Administration approved Geodon as a part of a combination maintenance treatment for bipolar disorder in adults.
Modified: 11/20/09 02:41:33 PM

Correction: Plavix story

In a Nov. 17 story about drug interactions between heartburn medications and the blood thinner Plavix, The Associated Press misidentified Johnson & Johnson's Mylanta as part of the H-2 blocker drug family. Mylanta is an antacid.
Modified: 11/20/09 10:44:03 AM

White House at odds with bishops over abortion

The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Modified: 11/20/09 04:39:00 PM

Drugmakers rush back into market for vaccines

Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.
Modified: 11/20/09 07:27:04 AM

Ask AP: Shuttle complexity, credit union agency

A space shuttle is no tinker toy. But is it the most complex machine ever built?
Modified: 11/20/09 02:49:11 PM

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Wake clinics offer H1N1 vaccine

Wake County children can get H1N1 flu vaccine Saturday at three different sites.
Modified: 11/19/09 10:41:36 PM

Blunt doctor gets in trouble

A panel may decide a doctor overstepped his bounds when he told a patient she was irresponsible -- and fat.
Modified: 11/20/09 04:26:54 PM

Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved

Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty.
Modified: 11/20/09 10:29:12 AM

Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps

First mammograms. Now - in an apparent coincidence - Pap smears.
Modified: 11/20/09 01:39:00 PM

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Bernadine Healy, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, says the change in guidelines for cervical cancer testing are "responsible" and based on "very good science." COURTESY: CBS' "The Early Show"

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The AP's Ed Donahue reports the recommendation has changed for women who get pap smears.

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There is a new recommendation for tests for cervical cancer. The AP's Ed Donahue reports.

China to punish those concealing swine flu info

China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up.
Modified: 11/20/09 12:54:07 AM