Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to repeal a Bush administration rule that has become a flash point in the debate over a doctor’s right not to participate in abortions. The regulation, instituted in the last days of the Bush administration, strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse to [...]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Medtronic announced two acquisitions Monday that will expand the company’s heart valve business at a price of more than $1 billion.
Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device maker, said it will pay $700 million for Irvine, California-based Corevalve and $325 million for Israeli firm Ventor Technologies. Both companies make replacement heart valves. Corevalve’s [...]
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Barack Hussein Obama, 47, was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday afternoon, setting aside more than 200 years of history by becoming the nation’s first African-American leader and promising a new era of “hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.”
Under the Constitution, [...]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) – Belgium’s royal palace says Queen Fabiola is in “serious but stable” condition three days after being hospitalized with pneumonia.
The palace says only that “treatment is continuing” for the 80-year-old queen.
She was hospitalized with throat and chest problems on Friday, and was treated in a hospital two weeks ago for an unrelated [...]
D DeMilo
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Mid to late teens found him more stable in his emotions [...]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) – Belgium’s Queen Fabiola, the sister-in-law of King Albert II, has been hospitalized with a lung infection, the royal palace said Saturday.
Queen Fabiola, 80, was taken late Friday to Brussels’ Saint John’s hospital, the palace said without elaborating on her condition.
She was treated last week for four days in a hospital for [...]
More than 57,000 people have become infected with the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia in the last year.
Chlamydia does not have many symptoms, but it causes infertility in men and women.
The head of the New South Wales Sexually Transmitted Infections Unit, Dr Chris Bourne, says infection rates have risen steadily over the decade.
“Chlamydia is the highest [...]
Mike Celizic, msnbc.com
A tiny baby girl gaining strength in an incubator in England is named “Aya” — Arabic for “miracle.” The name is not only beautiful but also descriptive of her birth: She was born two days after her mother was declared brain dead.
Jayne Soliman, a former British figure skating champion, was 41 years old [...]
Eve Tahmincioglu
Marian Robinson quit her job in 2007 to help raise her grandchildren.
Robinson, whose son-in-law is Barack Obama, soon to be sworn in as 44th President of the United States, quit her job at a Illinois bank last summer in order to help care for the Obama’s daughters when the couple set out on the [...]
Ottawa – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced the recall of a type of fish due to it being contaminated.
The recall has been issued for a brand of Leatherjacket fishwhich apparently has been found to contain a poison called ciguatera toxin.
Symptoms a person may experience if they eat the poison include vomiting, stomach cramps, [...]
