Health News

• AbbVie reports better-than-expected 4Q on Humira sales

  Friday, Jan 30, 8:12 am

  NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (AP) -- Drugmaker Abbvie posted better-than-expected adjusted results for the fourth quarter on Friday due to double-digit growth of its blockbuster anti-inflammatory drug Humira.Sales... Read more...
  
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  Cold-stunned turtles rehabilitated in New Orleans, released

  Friday, Jan 30, 5:20 am

  GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) -- Nearly two dozen turtles that were stranded by cold weather last year in Massachusetts have successfully undergone rehab and have been returned to waters off Louisiana's coast.More... Read more...
  
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  Obama proposes 'precision medicine' to end one-size-fits-all

  Friday, Jan 30, 5:01 am

  WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is calling for an investment to move away from one-size-fits-all-medicine, toward an approach that tailors treatment to your genes.The White House said... Read more...
  
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  Some doctors won't see patients with anti-vaccine views

  Friday, Jan 30, 3:24 am

  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- With California gripped by a measles outbreak, Dr. Charles Goodman posted a clear notice in his waiting room and on Facebook: His practice will no longer see children whose parents... Read more...
  
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  Survivors recall panic before Mexico City hospital blast

  Thursday, Jan 29, 10:18 pm

  MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Inside the maternity hospital on the western edge of Mexico City, concern quickly turned to panic as the sour smell of propane seeped in and a vapor cloud grew at the emergency room's... Read more...
  
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  Ohio agency fights judge's order to return tigers to owner

  Thursday, Jan 29, 5:42 pm

  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Returning six tigers and five other exotic animals to the sanctuary where they were seized near Toledo would threaten the creatures' health and the safety of people nearby, the... Read more...
  
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  Some doctors won't see patients with anti-vaccine views

  Thursday, Jan 29, 5:25 pm

  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- With California gripped by a measles outbreak, Dr. Charles Goodman posted a clear notice in his waiting room and on Facebook: His practice will no longer see children whose parents... Read more...
  
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  Richard Sherman looking forward to fatherhood

  Thursday, Jan 29, 5:18 pm

  PHOENIX (AP) -- Richard Sherman has contingency plans in place should his girlfriend give birth to their first child -- a son -- before Sunday's Super Bowl against New England.Sherman doesn't... Read more...
  

• NFL says reported concussions down 25 percent this season

  Thursday, Jan 29, 3:24 pm

  PHOENIX (AP) -- The number of recorded concussions dropped 25 percent during the regular season, according to the NFL, even as injury reporting and trips to injured reserve list rose overall.Data... Read more...
  

• Tech advances lower chance that driver will die in car crash

  Thursday, Jan 29, 12:24 pm

  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chances of a driver dying in a crash in a late-model car or light truck fell by more than a third over three years, and nine car models had zero deaths per million registered... Read more...
  
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  Black breast-feeding gatherings battle troubling health gaps

  Thursday, Jan 29, 11:48 am

  MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Once a month, baby-toting young women gather in a YMCA conference room to share tips, talk about and demonstrate breast-feeding -- an age-old yet sometimes shunned practice in their... Read more...
  

• 2011 vehicle models with highest and lowest death rates

  Thursday, Jan 29, 11:48 am

  The Insurance Institute for Highway safety examined fatalities involving 2011 model year vehicles, looking at how many driver fatalities occurred in a particular model over the course of a year of operation,... Read more...
  
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  'The Thorn Birds' author Colleen McCullough dies at age 77

  Thursday, Jan 29, 4:42 am

  SYDNEY (AP) -- Best-selling Australian author Colleen McCullough, whose novel "The Thorn Birds" sold 30 million copies worldwide, has died at age 77 after a long illness.McCullough died Thursday... Read more...
  

• WHO: Ebola response shifts to ending epidemic

  Thursday, Jan 29, 4:24 am

  LONDON (AP) -- Health officials are now focused on ending the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak rather than just slowing the deadly virus' spread, the World Health Organization said Thursday.The U.N.... Read more...
  

• Measles outbreak with Disney park origins grows to 95 cases

  Thursday, Jan 29, 3:54 am

  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A measles outbreak whose spread originated at Disneyland has grown to 95 cases.The California Department of Public Health tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/15W9x2B)... Read more...