Diagnostics

Parker-Broderick surrogacy case jury breaks
Yahoo! | 29 minutes ago
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio ? The jury in the trial of an Ohio police chief accused of breaking into the home of a woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick ended five hours of deliberations Friday without a verdict.

Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD
Yahoo! | 33 minutes ago
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. ? Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.

Chester legislator leads push to impeach
Charlotte Observer (N.C.), The | 1 hour 41 minutes ago
Past Sanford supporter introduced bill against governor, will sit on panel likely to handle hearings.

Breaching a barrier to fight brain cancer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 3 hours 52 minutes ago
Dr. Howard Riina threaded a slender tube through a maze of arteries in Dennis Sugrue's brain, watching X-ray images on a monitor to track his progress. At the site where a previous operation had removed a malignant tumor, he infused a drug called mannitol and unleashed a flood of the cancer drug Avastin.

Cutting through breast-cancer confusion
Seattle Times, The | 4 hours 37 minutes ago
Surprising new breast-cancer screening guidelines released last week that debunk the value of self exams and discourage most women in their 40s from getting mammograms have prompted widespread controversy, confusion and ? particularly among women ? lingering questions. Here are answers to some of those questions.

In battle over mammograms, Md. leaders race to front lines
Sun (Baltimore), The | 4 hours 38 minutes ago
Politicians, activists quickly oppose relaxed guidelines

Mystique surrounds relics of JFK assassination
Arizona Republic (Phoenix), The | 5 hours 23 minutes ago
Mystique surrounds relics of JFK assassination, Places and objects linked to John F. Kennedy's death on Nov. 22, 1963, still stir strong feelings 46 years later.

Doctor: Exhume Chaney's body | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), The | 6 hours 31 minutes ago
Exhuming James Chaney's body could help identify others involved in the Ku Klux Klan's 1964 killings of Chaney and two other civil rights workers, a world-renowned forensic pathologist says.

Pathologist: Exhume Chaney's body | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), The | 6 hours 47 minutes ago
By Jerry Mitchell

Second conjoined twin wakes - and blows raspberry
Times (London), The | 7 hours 27 minutes ago
The sound of a little girl blowing a raspberry was the sweetest Moira Kelly has ever heard.

‘Courage, grace’ in face of life-threatening condition
Boston Herald | 8 hours 39 minutes ago
Andrew Johnson was born with a defect that caused a life-threatening blockage in his urinary tract and irreversibly damaged his kidneys. Such birth defects are rare, said Dr. Allan S. Nadel, director of the obstetrical ultrasound and prenatal diagnostic center at Massachusetts General Hospital,...

End-of-Life Planning and the House Health Bill
New York Times, The | 9 hours 43 minutes ago
Re ?My Near Death Panel Experience? (Op-Ed, Nov. 15): It is welcome that Representative Earl Blumenauer has taken the time to set the record straight on the end-of-life provisions included in the House health care bill

Bangladeshi mom want twins to stay in Australia
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 10 hours 51 minutes ago
DHAKA, Bangladesh ? The mother who gave up conjoined Bangladeshi newborn twins for adoption said Saturday she is overjoyed the toddlers have been successfully separated and wants them to grow up in Australia.

Wisconsin lab faces blood sample backlog
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) | 14 hours 33 minutes ago
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A state lab is facing a backlog of nearly 1,000 blood samples from suspected intoxicated drivers.

Understanding mammogram guidelines
Chicago Tribune | 18 hours 31 minutes ago
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force set off a firestorm last week with new mammography guidelines. Previously, it had advised women at low risk to be screened for breast cancer every one to two years starting at age 40; now it suggests mammograms every two years starting at 50.