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35 min 56 sec ago
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — When patients come to see Marcia Hillman at Arrowhead Medical Center, they sometimes call her doctor.
Hillman gently corrects them — she's actually an advanced registered nurse practitioner — but she understands their confusion.
44 min 5 sec ago
CAP D'ANTIBES, France (AP) — Hugs, kisses, a massage and a vampire bite - stars were desperate to sell to the highest bidder at the amfAR Gala at the Cap D'Antibes.
1 hour 49 min ago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people would see their health care cut back or even eliminated under legislation approved Thursday by Illinois lawmakers in a desperate attempt to shore up the state's crumbling budget.
3 hours 50 min ago
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Poison Control Center has logged seven reports in the past month of children sickened by putting single-use washing machine packets in their mouths, compared to zero calls last year.
3 hours 58 min ago
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona is considering requests to expand its fledgling medical marijuana program to allow use of the drug for an array of conditions, including post-traumatic stress syndrome and migraines, beyond those allowed under the law approved by voters two years ago.
4 hours 33 min ago
SEATTLE (AP) — The value of your home may be a stronger predictor of your weight than the genes inherited from your ancestors, a new public health study from the University of Washington has found.
5 hours 38 sec ago
DALLAS (AP) — Miniature laundry detergent packets arrived on store shelves in recent months as an alternative to bulky bottles and messy spills. But doctors across the country say children are confusing the tiny, brightly colored packets with candy and swallowing them.
5 hours 19 min ago
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma Poison Control Center official says he's seen no increase in calls about children eating miniature laundry detergent packages.
Doctors nationwide say children think the tiny, brightly colored packets are candy and are swallowing them.
5 hours 40 min ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio hospital reached a proposed lawsuit settlement of about $1 million with women who said they were emotionally distressed to learn a former employee had stuffed their miscarried or stillborn fetuses into jars for years — citing her religious beliefs — and kept them in
5 hours 58 min ago
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — On a church rooftop in Airport Heights, a city air quality sensor measures what many in Southcentral Alaska already know by now: there's a lot of birch pollen in the air.
