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FDA recalls more than 2 million needles used in port implants

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:59:27 GMT

Millions of needles used in ports implanted under the skin of chronically ill patients are being voluntarily recalled, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday.

Wheelchair mobility at the tip of the tongue

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:27:19 GMT

Cruise Bogle, 18, was skimboarding with friends in Delray Beach, Florida, when he took a wave that whipped his board out from under him. Bogle was thrown backward, and his head hit the ocean floor. When friends saw him lying still in the surf, they knew something was wrong and rushed him to the hospital.

Gene mappers untangling common cold mysteries

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:57:24 GMT

A cure for the common cold has eluded scientists since the dawn of mankind.

Too much TV may mean earlier death

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:17:41 GMT

Watching too much television can make you feel a bit brain-dead. According to a new study, it might also take years off your life.

Artificial retina gives woman limited vision after decades of darkness

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:04:34 GMT

As a thick, gray haze began to descend over the words in her schoolbooks, and eventually the faces of loved ones, Barbara Campbell barely grasped that she was going blind.

Evidence still fuzzy on cell phones, cancer

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:49:48 GMT

In the year since a U.S. cancer researcher's warning drew wide attention, more evidence is emerging that long-term cell phone use is associated with cancer, but there's still not a definitive explanation or proof of cause and effect.

Do digital diaries mess up your brain?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:13:17 GMT

The meal you ate the first day you started working. The first exam you aced in high school. The shoes you wore to the prom.

'Death can tell us a lot about living,' mummy expert says

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:39:23 GMT

Throughout his life, Ronn Wade has been surrounded by death. And in most cases, it hasn't seemed to bother him.

Seniors Wii bowl for world record and for health

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:09:12 GMT

A world record was set recently in Houston, Texas. It wasn't the world's fastest quarter-mile run, the world's largest pumpkin or even the world's heaviest man. It was, however, as stunning to witness: the world's largest senior citizen Wii bowling tournament, as confirmed by Guinness World Records.

Fertility clinic to couple: You got the wrong embryos

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:02:01 GMT

On a cold morning in February, 10 days after undergoing in vitro fertilization, Carolyn Savage lay in bed at her Ohio home waiting for the results of her pregnancy test.