CHICAGO (AP) - Trampoline park injuries have soared as the indoor jumping trend has spread.
That's according to a study that shows annual U.S. emergency room visits jumped 12-fold for park-related injuries from over five years. Injuries included broken legs, neck sprains and concussions but 90 percent of the injured children and adults were treated and released.
Trampoline park injuries jump 12-fold as the trend spreadsAt least 19 people were killed last week in a knife attack at a facility for the disabled in a city just outside Tokyo in the worst mass killing in generations in Japan. The 26-year-old man accused of carrying out the attack had written a letter in February to parliament's lower house speaker, outlining what was similar to the bloody attack, and expressing his disturbing views.
AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from the past week in AsiaNEW YORK (AP) - Traveling to the Olympics? Don't let illnesses meddle with your fun.
Roughly half a million people from around the world are expected to travel to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. And while Zika is in the spotlight, there are other bugs and health problems that Olympic athletes and spectators should keep in mind.
Going to the Olympics? Some health risks to considerALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says federal regulators are too slow getting bad food off the shelves.
The New York Democrat is calling for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to review its recall process from top to bottom to determine if it's doing enough to prevent contamination-related food illnesses.
Sen. Schumer wants FDA's food recall process overhauledBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - "Killing Reagan" star Cynthia Nixon isn't mincing words about how the late Nancy Reagan might react to the freedom granted the man who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan.
"Nancy wouldn't like it," said Nixon, who plays the first lady in National Geographic Channel's movie based on the book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.
Nancy Reagan wouldn't like Hinckley's freedom, actress saysWATER MILL, N.Y. (AP) - If Kelly Ripa has a preference for who will join her as the co-host of "Live! With Kelly" she isn't saying who it is.
Ripa said Saturday that naming a favorite candidate to join her on the morning talk show would be "like telling you who my favorite child is."
Ripa spoke at a designer clothing sale to benefit ovarian cancer research in Water Mill, New York.
Kelly Ripa not saying who she'd like as new 'Live!' co-hostKAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) - A sushi restaurant employee believed to have been infected in a hepatitis A outbreak on the island of Oahu is recovering while almost all other staff members are cleared for work.
All workers were tested after the employee was diagnosed, West Hawaii Today reported (http://bit.
Sushi restaurant workers tested for Hepatitis AMIAMI (AP) - Florida mosquitoes have likely spread the Zika virus on the U.S. mainland for the first time, and Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio says the tourism-dependent state may face an economic crisis if visitors start canceling plans to come here.
But officials in Miami and Orlando caution against panic, and the director of the U.
Officials encourage travelers not to shun Florida for ZikaMIAMI (AP) - Some residents of the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami say they plan to stop eating outside now that four people likely contracted the Zika virus from mosquito bites in South Florida.
State officials on Friday pinpointed the cases to the Wynwood area, a trendy neighborhood of art galleries and boutiques.
More bug spray, less dining al fresco planned in Zika zoneNEW YORK (AP) - A co-founder of the advocacy group Autism Speaks has died after helping build it into one of the leading voices for people with the developmental disorder. Suzanne Wright was 69.
Organization spokeswoman Aurelia Grayson says Wright died of pancreatic cancer Friday at her home in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Co-founder of Autism Speaks, Suzanne Wright, dies at 69FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A 7-year-old Texas boy who was a beloved part of the TCU' baseball team's three consecutive trips to the College World Series has died following a battle with cancer.
Micah Ahern had undergone more than 10 operations since 2010 after being diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a form of cancer that attacks small children.
TCU loses 7-year-old fan Micah Ahern to cancerSEATTLE (AP) - Genetically modified wheat not approved for sale or commercial production in the United States has been found growing in a field in Washington state, agriculture officials said Friday, posing a possible risk to trade with countries concerned about engineered food.
The Food and Drug Administration says genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are safe and little scientific concern exists about the safety of those on the market.
GMO wheat found in Washington state could affect US tradeAUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas has fined Blue Bell Creameries for a listeria contamination last year that was linked to the death of three people, but the ice cream maker could wind up paying just a fraction of the $850,000 penalty.
The agreement announced Friday requires Blue Bell to pay the state $175,000 over the outbreak that triggered a national recall.
Texas hands Blue Bell potential $850K fine over listeriaORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The Latest on the Zika virus in Florida (all times local):
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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is asking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to reconvene Congress so lawmakers can pass an emergency spending bill to fight the spread of the Zika virus.
Nelson sent McConnell a letter Friday after health officials confirmed four people in South Florida likely contracted Zika from mosquito bites.
The Latest: Senator seeks reconvening of Congress over ZikaDALLAS (AP) - A South Texas research facility has been fined after 13 primates died of hyperthermia in overheated rooms, a federal official said Friday.
Covance Research Products in Alice was fined $31,500 for four violations of the U.S. Animal Welfare Act following the 2014 deaths of the cynomolgus monkeys, said Tanya Espinosa, a spokeswoman for the U.
Texas research facility fined for deaths of primatesMINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Minnesota judge overseeing Prince's estate narrowed down the wide pool of potential heirs for the late superstar's fortune on Friday, ruling out nearly 30 claimants while ordering genetic testing for six purported family members.
Carver County Judge Kevin Eide's order requires genetic testing for Prince's sister, Tyka Nelson, plus three half-siblings: Sharon Nelson, Norrine Nelson and John Nelson.
Court order narrows Prince's potential heirs to 6MIAMI (AP) - There's no official warning to stay clear of Florida, but the crowds that usually wander among the bold street murals in Miami's trendy Wynwood arts district may be thinner after reports that mosquitoes in the area have spread the Zika virus on the U.S. mainland for the first time.
Officials are trying to reassure tourists they'll be safe when visiting Florida's theme parks and urban arts districts.
Tourists urged not to panic about Zika's spread in FloridaCHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The Charleston County coroner says it appears a 90-year-old woman found dead in a pond after disappearing from her nursing home was killed by an alligator.
Coroner Rae Wooten said in a statement Friday that investigators think Bonnie Walker slipped or fell into the pond and then the alligator attacked her.
Coroner: Woman, 90, attacked by alligator near nursing homeBehind the spread of the Zika virus is a tiny menace that just won't go away.
It's called the Aedes aegypti (AYE'-dees uh-GYP'-tie), a species of mosquito that has played a villainous role in public health history and defeated attempts to wipe it out.
The mosquito is behind the large outbreaks of Zika virus in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Zika mosquito: thrives in hot weather, hard to wipe outORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The Latest on the Zika virus in Florida (all times local):
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President Obama's spokesman says Florida needs more federal money to limit the spread of the Zika virus.
White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz said Friday's announcement that South Florida has four mosquito-transmitted cases should be a wake-up call for Congress "to get back to work.
White House: Congress should get back to work on ZikaORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Florida's governor says the state has concluded that four mysterious Zika infections likely came from mosquitoes in the Miami area.
Gov. Rick Scott said Friday that no mosquitoes in the state have tested positive for Zika. But he says one woman and three men in Miami-Dade and Broward counties likely contracted the virus through mosquito bites.
Governor: 4 Zika cases likely came from Florida mosquitoesQUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Police say a Pennsylvania woman laced her baby's formula with a drug that helps heroin addicts kick the habit so he would sleep.
The (Allentown) Morning Call (http://bit.ly/2alRBnd) reports 28-year-old Corinne Barndt told police she drugged her son's formula six or seven times from November to April.
Cops: Woman laced baby's formula with drug so he would sleepHONOLULU (AP) - Federal researchers returning from a 30-day expedition to study whales and dolphins around the Hawaiian islands are looking for clues to help sustain healthy populations of the marine mammals.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists told reporters Wednesday that gathering data on the animals is often difficult, especially around the windward coasts of the Hawaiian Islands.
NOAA: Drone technology aids whale research off HawaiiA Stockton man was arrested on Wednesday after taking his mother, without her medication, out of a Vallejo care home, and bringing her to another city, a Vallejo Police Department spokesman said.
Just after 12:30 p.m. Wednesday Herbert Lee, 47, went to a care facility at 2200 Tuloumne St., and allegedly removed his mother from required care, Lt.
Elderly, at-risk Vallejo woman taken from care home by sonAVENTURA, Fla. (AP) - An unarmed black therapist who was shot in the leg by police last week while protecting his severely autistic client said he had a joyful reunion Thursday with the man, who remains hospitalized because of emotional trauma.
Charles Kinsey told reporters outside a South Florida hospital that Arnaldo Rios jumped from his bed and hugged him when he walked into his room for their private meeting.
Therapist shot by police has reunion with autistic clientANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Genetic tests confirm that a mysterious, unnamed species of beaked whale only rarely seen alive by Japanese fishermen roams the northern Pacific Ocean, according to research published this week.
The testing shows the black whales, with bulbous heads and beaks like porpoises, are not dwarf varieties of more common Baird's beaked whales, a slate-gray animal.
Testing confirms new, rarely seen whale in Pacific OceanMIAMI (AP) - Federal authorities want to suspend blood donations in Florida counties investigating four mysterious cases of Zika infection that may be the first spread by mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on its website asks blood centers in Miami-Dade and Broward counties to immediately stop collecting blood until each unit of blood can be screened for the virus.
FDA: No Miami-area blood donations during Zika investigationNEW YORK (AP) - Chipotle is branching out from burritos and plans to open its first burger restaurant.
A spokesman for the chain, Chris Arnold, said in an email Thursday that the company's first Tasty Made burger restaurant will open in this fall in Lancaster, Ohio. Chipotle says the Tasty Made menu will be limited to burger, fries and milkshakes.
Chipotle branching out, plans to open burger restaurantAUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The latest version of a booklet that Texas produces for women considering an abortion suggests medical connections between terminating pregnancies and heightened risks of breast cancer and depression.
Since 2003, state law has mandated that pregnant women be provided information when mulling an abortion.
Texas' revised abortion booklet criticized as inaccurateTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida's Department of Health has granted its second dispensing authorization for medical marijuana.
On Wednesday the agency notified Surterra Therapeutics that it has been approved for processing and dispensing low-THC cannabis.
Surterra is the dispensing partner for the Homestead-based Alpha Foliage, which was granted the license for the Southwest Florida region.
Second dispensing organization authorized in FloridaCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A drug used to sedate elephants and other large animals that is 100 times as potent as the fentanyl (FEHN'-tuh-nihl) already escalating the country's heroin troubles is suspected in spates of overdoses in several states.
Authorities say they've found carfentanil (kahr-FEHN'-tuh-nihl) mixed with or passed off as much weaker heroin.
A new threat in fight against overdoses: Elephant sedativeHONOLULU (AP) - Army Secretary Eric Fanning says the Army is paying more attention to behavioral health and making sure anyone who's injured while defending the nation gets the treatment they need.
He says the Army and other military branches are conducting research into how military deployment affects anger.
Army secretary touts importance of mental healthQUINCY, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner said Wednesday that the state is doing everything it can to prevent the spread of Legionnaires' disease at a veterans home where an outbreak last year sickened 53 people, including 12 who died.
Rauner visited the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy on Wednesday, a day after officials announced that two more residents of the home were sickened and less than a month after a nearly $5 million water treatment plant and delivery system was unveiled at the facility.
Rauner: Illinois doing all it can on Legionnaires' casesParents can significantly reduce their obese children's risk of heart disease just by cutting their sugar intake, a new Touro University-lead study shows. This could have far-reaching impacts in areas like Solano County, where nearly 30 percent of children are technically obese, Touro officials said.
Less sugar in obese children can reduce adult heart disease, Touro study findsINDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Anthem has no intention of backing away quietly from its plan to buy rival Cigna in the face of federal opposition, and the company looks ready to play hardball.
The health insurer told analysts Wednesday that it is preparing to fight the government's move to block its deal, and the company said its participation in the government's health insurance exchanges - a sore subject for the Obama administration that is trying to stop the acquisition - may be at stake.
Anthem prepping for hardball fight with feds over Cigna dealSALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah's Planned Parenthood branch won't hand out condom packages printed with a symbol associated with Mormon youth teachings after an image of the wrappers on its Facebook page generated backlash.
The wrappers stamped with a popular design symbolizing the phrase "Choose the Right" were a limited run intended to spark open conversation about sexual health, Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Katrina Barker said.
Utah Planned Parenthood pulls condoms with Mormon symbolNEW YORK (AP) - Shares of drug developer Kadmon Holdings tumbled Wednesday after its initial public offering priced far below the company's estimates.
Kadmon said its offering of 6.25 million shares priced at $12 a share, raising $75 million in total. The company originally planned to sell 5.
Drug developer Kadmon skids following weak demand for IPOPITTSBURGH (AP) - The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has paid $2.5 million to settle some claims in a federal whistleblower lawsuit accusing the hospital network of overbilling government insurance programs for neurosurgery.
UPMC isn't acknowledging wrongdoing in the settlement announced Wednesday by the federal attorneys.
Hospital network paying $2.5M to settle overbilling claimsWEST MILFORD, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man who spent three weeks looking for survivors in the days after the 9/11 attacks is using billboards in a push to have his kidney disease added to the list of covered conditions by a fund to help Ground Zero workers with health problems.
Mike Megna has a rare kidney disease he believes was caused by dust from the rubble of the fallen World Trade Center towers.
9/11 worker pleads for medical coverage with billboardsLOS ANGELES (AP) - Health officials in Southern California are urging high-risk gay and bisexual men to get the meningitis vaccine after observing an increase in cases of invasive meningococcal disease, a potentially deadly infection.
The Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/2ab6Cuw) Tuesday's alert broadens a previous recommendation earlier this month.
Health officials urge gay men get meningitis vaccineBELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) - A former Pennsylvania beauty queen who faked having leukemia to benefit from fundraisers has been sentenced to two to four years in prison.
WJAC-TV (http://bit.ly/2apTkXW ) reports a judge sentenced 24-year-old Brandi Weaver-Gates on Tuesday. She pleaded guilty last month to several theft-related charges.
Former beauty queen gets prison for fake cancer scamsSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Ethan Dean has always dreamed of being a garbage man. He never tires of playing with toy garbage trucks and loves to watch the real ones drive past his house.
On Tuesday, the 6-year-old with cystic fibrosis got his wish, riding shotgun in a booster seat through Sacramento as an honest-to-goodness garbage truck driver with a set of wheels labeled "Ethan's Garbage Truck.
Wish granted: Six-year-old boy is garbage man for a dayMEETEETSE, Wyo. (AP) - A nocturnal species of weasel with a robber-mask-like marking across its eyes has returned to the remote ranchlands of western Wyoming where the critter almost went extinct more than 30 years ago.
Wildlife officials on Tuesday released 35 black-footed ferrets on two ranches near Meeteetse, a tiny cattle ranching community 50 miles east of Yellowstone National Park.
Black-footed ferrets return to where they held out in wildSEATTLE (AP) - University of Washington biology professor Adam Summers no longer has to coax hospital staff to use their CT scanners so he can visualize the inner structures of sting ray and other fish.
Last fall, he installed a small computed tomography, or CT, scanner at the UW's Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island in Washington state and launched an ambitious project to scan and digitize all of more than 25,000 species in the world.
Washington scientist launches effort to digitize all fishMEETEETSE, Wyo. (AP) - A nocturnal species of weasel with a robber-mask-like marking across its eyes has returned to the remote ranchlands of western Wyoming where the critter almost went extinct more than 30 years ago.
Wildlife officials on Tuesday released 35 black-footed ferrets on two ranches near Meeteetse, a tiny cattle ranching community 50 miles east of Yellowstone National Park.
Black-footed ferrets return to where they held out in wildMore than 40 underprivileged students will benefit from more than $2 million in scholarships to Vallejo's Touro University over then next four years, Rep. Mike Thompson announced Tuesday.
Thompson (D-St. Helena) announced a $630,000 Health Resource and Service Administration grant to fund scholarships for Touro University students at the Mare Island campus each year for four years -- a total of $2.
Vallejo's Touro University awarded more than $2 million in federal scholarship grantsHONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii's Department of Health says an outbreak of hepatitis A has grown to 93 cases, including a sushi restaurant employee.
The department on Tuesday warned the public they may have been exposed to the disease if they ate any food from Sushi Shiono in the Waikoloa Beach Resort during certain dates between July 5 and 21.
Sushi restaurant worker among 93 Hawaii hepatitis A casesLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The legislator who drafted the law that keeps most of Arkansas' lethal injection policy a secret says pharmaceutical companies have no standing to complain that prison officials will use their drugs in executions.
The Associated Press reported Monday that it appears Arkansas obtained a paralytic drug made by a subsidiary of Pfizer for use in executions.
Legislator: Pfizer can't complain about execution drugCHICAGO (AP) - New research says that contrary to what doctors once warned, newborns with certain severe genetic defects aren't always doomed to die.
Some doctors still tell parents the conditions are "incompatible with life" and don't recommend any treatment. But a study published Tuesday from Canada found that up to 13 percent of affected infants survived at least 10 years.
Severe birth defects not as lethal as docs once said: StudyNEW YORK (AP) - Daniel Higgins is one cop who knows a thing or two about sting operations.
Although the New York Police Department detective's main job is working in a counterterrorism unit, he is also one of two official department beekeepers who dons protective gear and heads to the scene when buzzing swarms of the insects glom onto buildings, streetlights or other pieces of the urban landscape.
NYPD bee squad ready for sting operations on urban swarmsHOUSTON (AP) - A Texas judge has dismissed the last remaining charge against two California anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood.
District Judge Brock Thomas dismissed the charge of tampering with government records against 27-year-old David Daleiden and 63-year-old Sandra Merritt upon the request of the Harris County prosecutor's office.
Last charge dropped against anti-abortion duo behind videosWACO, Texas (AP) - Investigators say no one will be charged after a 12-year-old black girl suffered rope burns to her neck during a school field trip to a ranch in Texas.
The Waco Tribune-Herald (http://bit.ly/2a8r9jw ) reports that Blanco County Sheriff's Capt. Ben Ablon said Monday that there's no evidence to support allegations that the injuries were intentional or racially motived.
No charges after black Texas girl suffers rope burns to neckTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The first medical marijuana dispensary in Florida is slated to open.
Tuelieve, the approved organization in northwest Florida, is set to open a dispensary in Tallahassee on Tuesday, one week after being given dispensing authorization by Florida's health department.
The state's Office of Compassionate Use, which was formed to oversee state regulation of medical marijuana, projects that there will be dispensing locations in 19 cities by the time all six organizations are up and running.
First medical marijuana dispensary to open in FloridaSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Ethan Dean will be living his dream on Tuesday.
The six-year-old has a garbage truck bedspread and pillow. He has garbage truck toys. He's had a garbage truck birthday party.
Now, thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, he's going to experience what it's like to be a garbage truck driver.
Wish granted: Six-year-old boy will be garbage man for a dayMINNEAPOLIS (AP) - General Mills is expanding a flour recall issued over a possible link to an E. coli outbreak after four new illnesses were reported.
The recall announced Monday covers several varieties of Gold Medal and Signature Kitchens flour produced on certain dates through February 10.
General Mills expands flour recall after 4 more illnessesNAPA >> The first mosquitos in Napa County testing positive for West Nile Virus this year were detected in American Canyon last week, the Napa County Mosquito Abatement District announced.
On July 22, two samples of mosquitoes collected in American Canyon tested positive for the virus, they said.
Napa County's first West Nile Virus-positive mosquitos of year found in American Canyon over weekendA structure fire in Vallejo early Monday damaged a garage, but left a family home habitable, Vallejo Fire Department Battalion Chief Cliff Campbell said.
The call came in at about 5:40 a.m. about a fire on Pueblo Way, where fire crews found an exterior wall of a garage burning.
Some damage was done to the garage, but fire fighters were able to contain the blaze to that area and the family living in the home was not displaced, Campbell said.
Garage fire extinguished before displacing Vallejo familyComic Sarah Silverman joined Sen. Al Franken Monday night to urge Democratic National Convention delegates to unite - then stirred up Bernie Sanders die-hards with some choice words: "To the Bernie or bust people, you're being ridiculous."
As a Sanders supporter herself, Silverman said she would now vote for Hillary Clinton "with gusto" as she continues to be "inspired and moved to action by the ideals set forth by Bernie, who will never stop fighting for us.
Sarah Silverman: Bernie-or-bust Dems 'being ridiculous'LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dr. Sherman Mellinkoff, who took the newly created UCLA School of Medicine and turned it into a powerhouse of medical research and academics, has died at age 96.
The university said in a statement that Mellinkoff died July 17 at his home near the Westwood campus.
He took over the school in 1962, when it was just a decade old and did not yet have its own buildings.
Longtime UCLA med school dean Sherman Mellinkoff dies at 96ST. MARYS, Kan. (AP) - The chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs has requested all VA medical records for the former Marine who killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Florida Rep. Jeff Miller sent a letter dated July 21 to the Department of Veterans Affairs requesting records for Gavin Long, an Iraq war veteran.
Congressional committee seeks gunman's VA recordNEW YORK (AP) - If you want to see a tall population of men, go to the Netherlands. Tall women? Latvia.
And in the United States, which lags behind dozens of other countries in height, the average for adults stopped increasing about 20 years ago.
That's the word from researchers who analyzed a century's worth of height data from 200 countries.
Up there: Netherlands, Latvia lead world for people's heightSAN DIEGO (AP) - Conrad Prebys, a major philanthropist in medical research and the arts who made his fortune building and managing apartment buildings in San Diego, has died, his family said Monday. He was 82.
Prebys was one of San Diego's most prominent donors whose beneficiaries included San Diego State University, San Diego Zoo, San Diego Museum of Art and Scripps Health.
San Diego investor, philanthropist Conrad Prebys dies at 82AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas unveiled Monday a revamped women's health program for low-income residents that includes a boost in family planning services that the conservative state will no longer let Planned Parenthood and other organizations affiliated with abortion providers offer.
More than 5,000 health care providers are part of the new program, Healthy Texas Women, said Charles Smith, head of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
New Texas women's health program has family planning focusSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California will no longer label dogs seized from illegal fighting rings as "vicious," making safe rescue dogs more likely to get adopted.
Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday to give dogs with cruel owners a chance at rehabilitation.
AB1825 allows animal sanctuaries, veterinarians and others to judge dogs' behavior before labeling them.
California lifts label on dogs rescued from fighting ringsSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - His wish isn't to go to Disneyland or meet a Superhero.
No, Ethan Dean has a different wish. The 6-year-old wants to be a garbage man for a day.
And garbage man he shall be.
The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/2al4MnQ ) that the Make-A-Wish Foundation has teamed up with Waste Management to make a dream come true on Tuesday.
Wish granted: garbage man for a day to sick Sacramento boyNEW YORK (AP) - Preparing to go on stage for the first time in months after intensive rounds of chemotherapy, an atypically nervous Sharon Jones sat backstage at New York's Beacon Theatre, clutching a cup and shaking.
"Then they announce her - 'Miss Sharon Jones!' - and she goes like a prizefighter onto the stage," recalls Barbara Kopple, the Oscar winning filmmaker.
The show goes on for cancer-stricken Sharon JonesNEW YORK (AP) - U.S. health officials are strongly urging doctors to ask all pregnant women about a possible Zika infection at every checkup.
So far, there have been no confirmed cases of a Zika infection from a mosquito bite in the United States, although officials expect mosquitoes will start spreading it in Southern states.
Doctors urged to check pregnant women for Zika at each visitMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Patients treated at a Tennessee dental clinic should get tested for hepatitis B and C, and HIV after problems with infection control could have put thousands of people at risk for the diseases, health officials said Monday.
The Shelby County Health Department is strongly recommending the testing for patients of SPT Dental Clinic, which was closed down on July 1.
Officials: Patients of dental clinic should get HIV testsA look at Medicare's top 20 priciest prescription drugs in 2015, ranked by their cost above the program's "catastrophic" coverage threshold. Medicare's catastrophic protection kicks in after a beneficiary has spent a given amount of their own money, $4,850 this year. The beneficiary pays only 5 percent, while their insurer pays 15 percent, and taxpayers cover 80 percent.
What are the top 20 priciest Medicare prescription drugs?Researchers on Sunday outlined a syndrome called "mild behavioral impairment" that may be a harbinger of Alzheimer's or other dementias, and proposed a checklist of symptoms to help identify who's at risk. The symptoms must mark a change from prior behavior and have lasted at least six months. Among the questions:
-Has the person lost interest in friends, family or home activities?
-Has the person become less spontaneous and active - for example, is he/she less likely to initiate or maintain conversation?
-Does the person view herself/himself as a burden to family?
-Has the person become more anxious or worried about things that are routine, like events, visits?
Checklist of possible behavioral warning signs of dementiaNEW YORK (AP) - Brandi Chastain likes U.S. soccer's prospects for defending gold in Rio, is advocating for fewer headers in youth games and tackling her son's diagnosis of Crohn's disease.
It's been 17 years since Chastain's game-winning penalty shootout kick against China at the Women's World Cup at the Rose Bowl in July 1999, and the celebratory photo of her overhead jersey twirl landed on magazine covers.
Brandi Chastain: On headers, concussions, soccer wagesPHOENIX (AP) - Phoenix police have released the name of the 12-year-old boy who died after hiking in triple-digit temperatures.
Authorities said Sunday that Cody Flom was hiking with an adult male Friday afternoon in the Sonoran Desert Preserve when he became ill.
The man tried to carry him off the trail and then tried dialing 911, but his phone didn't work.
Police identify Phoenix boy, 12, who died after hike in heatResearchers on Sunday outlined a syndrome called "mild behavioral impairment" that may be a harbinger of Alzheimer's or other dementias, and proposed a checklist of symptoms to help identify who's at risk. The symptoms must mark a change from prior behavior and have lasted at least six months. Among the questions:
-Has the person lost interest in friends, family or home activities?
-Has the person become less spontaneous and active - for example, is he/she less likely to initiate or maintain conversation?
-Does the person view herself/himself as a burden to family?
-Has the person become more anxious or worried about things that are routine, like events, visits?
Checklist of possible behavioral warning signs of dementiaEfforts to restore or expand oyster colonies are underway around the coastal U.S. A look at some of them:
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ALABAMA: 1,100 acres of oyster reefs created from 2009-14; additional work ongoing.
CALIFORNIA: Restoration programs in San Francisco and Richardson bays, among others.
CONNECTICUT: State borrowed $5.
A look at some oyster restoration programs around the USLITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. (AP) - Oysters were once so abundant in New Jersey that vacationers would clamber off trains, wade into the water and pluck handfuls to roast for dinner. Their colonies piled so high that boats would sometimes run aground on them, and they were incorporated into navigation maps.
Maturing oyster recovery projects bring calls for moneyNEW YORK (AP) - For Dorkas Kaya and other young patients with HIV, seeing the walls of their residential treatment facility transformed with broad splashes of color and graffiti-like scribbles brought a singular reaction: "Whoa!"
Artist Jose Parla spent several days last week decorating bedrooms, hallways and common areas of the Incarnation Children's Center in his signature improvisational style, the latest project in a charitable effort that commissions top contemporary artists to make pediatric health facilities less intimidating.
Art with heart: Making children's health wards less scaryA look at Medicare's top 20 priciest prescription drugs in 2015, ranked by their cost above the program's "catastrophic" coverage threshold. Medicare's catastrophic protection kicks in after a beneficiary has spent a given amount of their own money, $4,850 this year. The beneficiary pays only 5 percent, while their insurer pays 15 percent, and taxpayers cover 80 percent.
What are the top 20 priciest Medicare prescription drugs?MIAMI (AP) - The autistic man who was the intended target of a police bullet is suffering from emotional distress, not eating and traumatized following the shooting of his caretaker.
Multiple media outlets reported Saturday that Arnaldo Rios' mother, Gladys Soto, said during a Saturday news conference that she is worried about the safety of her son.
Family fears for autistic man's safety following shootingNEW YORK (AP) - Her computer, Karin Strauss says, contains her "digital attic" - a place where she stores that published math paper she wrote in high school, and computer science schoolwork from college.
She'd like to preserve the stuff "as long as I live, at least," says Strauss, 37. But computers must be replaced every few years, and each time she must copy the information over, "which is a little bit of a headache.
Scientists work toward storing digital information in DNACENTER LINE, Mich. (AP) - Police seized a dozen rifles and six handguns from the home of a suburban Detroit man after a witness reported the man said he wanted to kill police officers, authorities said Saturday.
The man made the threat during a mental health discussion and has been committed to a mental health facility, Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green told The Detroit News (http://detne.
Police: Detroit-area man held, said he wanted to kill copsTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The first organization authorized to dispense medical marijuana in Florida has made its first home delivery.
Kim Rivers is CEO of Trulieve. She said Saturday that the company has delivered low-THC medical cannabis to a patient in Hudson, Florida, who is suffering from dystonia, a condition characterized by chronic muscle spasms and seizures.
First home delivery of medical marijuana made in FloridaHUGO, Colo. (AP) - A warning not to drink the water in a Colorado town has been canceled after tests showed there is no longer any evidence of a marijuana chemical in the tap water.
The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said Saturday that a criminal investigation is continuing into suspected tampering and forced entry at a Hugo community well.
Tests : No more marijuana chemicals in Colorado town's waterHighlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
This week's gallery features images of a man exercising his open carry rights in Cleveland during the Republican convention, people protecting themselves from a gunfight during a coup attempt in Turkey, a child carrying a kettle through a flooded street in China.
AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past weekAMERICAN CANYON >> Even with identified mitigation efforts, the Watson Ranch project would elevate traffic and greenhouse emissions to unacceptable levels, according to the recently released draft Environmental Impact Report on the long-awaited development.
This surprises no one and does not necessarily spell the end for the so-called town center project, City Manager Dana Shigley said Friday.
AmCan's hoped for town center's environmental report finds serious down sideSANDY SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) - A woman sought for murder in the death of her 9-month-old grandson has been arrested outside Atlanta. Police believe she killed the baby by forcing methamphetamine into his body.
Local news media say 45-year-old Tonya Monroe has a history of drug abuse, and the baby had been born with brain damage.
Drug addict accused of killing grandson with methamphetamineJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A federal judge has ruled in favor of a Missouri lawmaker who cited religious objections while challenging the inclusion of birth control coverage in his government-provided health insurance.
The ruling Thursday by U.S. District Judge Jean Hamilton addresses a section of President Barack Obama's health care law that requires insurers to include coverage of contraception.
Court: Birth control mandate violates religious rightsNEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana officials have agreed not to enforce several new restrictions on abortion pending a judge's decision on whether to block the laws.
The restrictions include a requirement for a 72-hour waiting period for many women, and a ban on a common second-trimester procedure called dilation and evacuation.
State won't enforce new abortion restrictions, for nowNORTH MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - The four North Miami police officers who aimed rifles at a black therapist and an autistic man in the middle of an intersection were responding to a 911 call about a suicidal man with a gun. The 27-year-old autistic man sat cross-legged. He yelled. He didn't obey commands to lie down with his hands up, as the therapist was doing, and he fidgeted with a metal object.
Shooting highlights police trouble spotting autism traitsINDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Latest on an Indiana woman's appeal of a feticide conviction in the death of her premature infant (all times local):
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An advocacy group says it is glad the Indiana appeals court has overturned the feticide conviction of a woman who delivered a premature infant after ingesting abortion-inducing drugs.
The Latest: Advocate pleased feticide conviction overturnedJUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday struck down a state law requiring parental notification of a minor seeking an abortion.
The court found the law, approved by voters in 2010, violates the state Constitution and cannot be enforced.
The majority opinion written by Justice Daniel Winfree states that the court is not concerned with whether abortion is right or wrong or whether abortions should be available to minors without restriction.
Alaska court strikes down parental notice for abortionsHUGO, Colo. (AP) - Bottled water is being distributed to residents of the small Colorado town of Hugo as officials investigate the possibility that a marijuana chemical has contaminated the water supply.
Officials announced Thursday that some field tests had found THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient, in the water, but they were awaiting the results of more definitive laboratory tests Friday.
Colorado town awaits test results of pot ingredient in waterHOUSTON (AP) - A rape victim with a history of mental illness has sued a Texas county saying she was wrongly jailed after testifying against her attacker.
Attorney Sean Buckley says his client has bipolar disorder and had a breakdown in December while testifying in Harris County. She was committed to a hospital, discharged and then arrested as a material witness.
Mentally ill woman, rape victim, sues over Texas arrestNEW YORK (AP) - In the opening moments of the documentary "Gleason," the celebrated New Orleans Saints safety Steve Gleason talks to the camera with a not-yet-occupied crib behind him. He has just learned that he has ALS. Soon the symptoms will take over. Preparing for what's coming, Gleason tells his unborn son that he wants to give him "as much of myself as I possibly can while I still can.
In 'Gleason,' a football star with ALS finds a new purposeFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Federal authorities have charged three people in an alleged $1 billion health care fraud scam, accusing them of using their network of more than two dozen nursing homes in Miami to bilk the taxpayer-funded Medicare program.
According to an indictment unsealed Friday, Philip Esformes and his conspirators referred patients their nursing homes and assisted living facilities even though they did not qualify for the services.
Authorities: $1B Medicare fraud nursing home scam, 3 chargedMIAMI (AP) - Florida mosquito control officials worry they won't be able to keep up their efforts to contain the bugs that carry Zika without federal funding, even as concern mounts that the first infection from a mosquito bite on the U.S. mainland is near.
On Thursday, fogging trucks drove through a Miami-Dade County neighborhood where health officials are investigating a Zika diagnosis that doesn't appear to have connection to travel outside the United States.
Zika investigations eating up funds, Florida officials sayANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - A judge says a Michigan man accused of poisoning unpackaged food at grocery stores earlier this year isn't competent to stand trial.
The Ann Arbor News reports (http://bit.ly/2aAPr1i ) Washtenaw County District Court Judge Cedric Simpson made the ruling Thursday in the case of 29-year-old Kyle Bessemer after a doctor's evaluation.
Judge: Man accused in store poisoning incompetent for trialThe mercury leak detected in an old out-building near a Vallejo-owned Napa County lake was tested and found not to pose a danger, city officials announced.
On July 18, a city-hired contractor doing routine pipeline maintenance in an old valve house at the Lake Curry Dam discovered that mercury had leaked from a non-functioning, circa 1924 water flow meter.
Lake Curry Dam mercury leak tests found no harmful levelsThe mother of the Iraq war veteran who shot and killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge said Thursday that she believes her son suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and that he once said he thought the CIA was following him.
Gavin Long's mother, Corine Woodley, told PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley that her son would "pretty much lose it" and become furious every time he heard about a black man being shot by police in what he considered an unlawful manner.
Mom of Baton Rouge shooter: He'd 'lose it' over shootingsHONOLULU (AP) - Frustrated Hawaii health officials say they have faced a number of challenges trying to identify the source of a hepatitis A outbreak that has affected at least 74 people on the island of Oahu.
"It's not as feasible as a lot of people might think," state epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Park said of finding the source.
Hawaii health agency faces challenge in Hepatitis A outbreakHUGO, Colo. (AP) - Officials told residents of a small Colorado town not to shower or drink tap water Thursday because wells have been contaminated with marijuana's intoxicating chemical.
Hugo, about 100 miles southeast of Denver on Colorado's plains, prohibits marijuana cultivation, product manufacturing, testing facilities and retail marijuana stores that are legal in the state, so it's not known how THC appeared in the water supply.
Pot's intoxicating chemical taints water in Colorado townRENO, Nev. (AP) - Nevada's Department of Corrections is changing a series of policies and practices that the U.S. Justice Department says illegally discriminate against prison inmates with HIV by housing them separately and denying access to work assignments that can speed their release.
The Justice Department concluded last month the state was violating inmates' civil rights under the policies based largely on outdated and unfounded fears about the transmission of the virus that causes AIDS.
Nevada ending discrimination of prison inmates with HIVTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The family of a Tucson man being held on terrorism charges says in a new statement that he is autistic, incapable of caring for himself and couldn't carry out any of the attacks he is suspected of plotting.
The parents of Mahin Khan, 18, issued the letter to Tucson TV station KGUN9 on Thursday.
Family of Arizona terrorism suspect says man is mentally illNEW YORK (AP) - Chipotle saw a smaller drop in sales as it tries to win back customers, but the company says it doesn't know how long it will take to fully recover after an E. coli outbreak and norovirus cases last fall.
"There's never been a case like this," Chief Financial Officer Jack Hartung said Thursday during a conference call with analysts.
Chipotle pulls out the stops to win back customersBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Latest on the gunman who killed three law enforcement officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge on Sunday (all times local):
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The mother of the Iraq war veteran who shot and killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge says she believes her son suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and that he once said he thought the CIA was following him.
The Latest: Gunman's mother believes he suffered from PTSDALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York state has repealed its tax on tampons and other feminine hygiene products, a move expected to save women $10 million a year.
Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measure into law Thursday, calling it "a matter of social and economic justice." The repeal passed the Legislature earlier this year after female lawmakers from both parties complained the tax was sexist because personal products including condoms and bandages were already exempt from the sales tax.
New York repeals sales tax on tampons and sanitary napkinsMIAMI (AP) - The Latest on the Zika virus in Florida (all times local):
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Florida's Department of Health has now ruled out sexual transmission as well as travel as the source of a Miami-area woman's Zika infection.
Health officials are trying to determine whether the woman could be the first person infected with the Zika virus directly by a mosquito bite inside the continental United States.
The Latest: Sex didn't infect Miami-area woman with ZikaLONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - The Latest on a sewage spill in Los Angeles (all times local):
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A mile of Southern California shoreline that was closed amid fears involving a sewage spill 20 miles away has reopened after two consecutive tests came back clean.
However, officials said Thursday a longer stretch of neighboring beach remains closed.
The Latest: 1 beach reopens after Los Angeles sewage spillSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Washington's attorney general on Thursday asked a federal judge to immediately take steps to protect Hanford Nuclear Reservation workers from exposure to chemical vapors.
More than 50 workers have received medical evaluations after reporting exposure to vapors in recent months.
Attorney general seeks immediate help for Hanford workersWASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - Federal regulators are suing to stop two major health insurance mergers because they say the deals will increase health care costs for Americans and lower the quality of care they get.
The Department of Justice said Thursday that the combinations of Aetna and Humana and Anthem and Cigna would hurt competition that restrains the price of coverage and reduce benefits, among other drawbacks.
Feds sue stop health insurer combos, see threat to consumerNEW YORK (AP) - US moves to block healthcare megamergers worth a combined $82B, saying deals would drive American medical costs higher.
US moves to block healthcare megamergers worth a combined $82B, saying deals would drive American medical costs higherNEW YORK (AP) - Theranos Inc. named a new vice president in charge of regulatory issues and a new chief compliance officer weeks after federal regulators banned the company's founder and CEO from owning or running a medical laboratory for two years.
The ban followed months of investigation by government testing regulators where they found a number of violations of federal testing standards at the blood-test company's site.
Theranos names execs to lead compliance, regulatory affairsMIAMI (AP) - Authorities say a Florida police officer shot and wounded an autistic man's black caretaker in an incident purportedly captured on cellphone video that shows the caretaker lying down with his arms raised before being shot.
North Miami Assistant Police Chief Neal Cuevas told The Miami Herald that officers responded to the scene Monday following reports of a man threatening to shoot himself.
Police shoot autistic man's caretaker as he lies in streetFAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) - The death of a 4-month-old baby at an unlicensed home day care in Connecticut has been ruled a homicide after toxicology reports found high levels of Benadryl in the infant's system.
Police in Fairfield say they're investigating the March 22 death of Adam Seagull of Shelton.
Death of infant with Benadryl intoxication ruled a homicideMIAMI (AP) - Florida health officials have trapped mosquitoes in an area of Miami-Dade County and are testing them for Zika to confirm whether a woman with the virus could be the first person infected directly by a mosquito bite in the continental United States.
Florida's Department of Health and the U.
Florida mosquitoes being tested for Zika to confirm caseLONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - There is no sign that a huge sewage spill in downtown Los Angeles reached the ocean 20 miles away, but the waters off Long Beach and parts of neighboring Seal Beach will remain closed at least until another round of tests comes back clean on Thursday.
The first sample taken showed no excessive levels of bacteria, Nelson Kerr of the Long Beach health department said Wednesday.
Tests clean, but beaches stay closed after LA sewage spillBOSTON (AP) - Two former executives of a California-based medical device company have been convicted in a Massachusetts court of distributing adulterated and misbranded medical devices.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said Wednesday that 47-year-old William Facteau, of Altherton, California, and 49-year-old Patrick Fabian, of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, were convicted by a jury after a six-week trial of 10 counts of introducing adulterated and misbranded medical devices into interstate commerce.
CEO, VP convicted of distributing misbranded medical devicesMIAMI (AP) - Authorities say a Florida police officer shot and wounded an autistic man's caretaker following reports of a man threatening to shoot himself.
The Miami Herald (http://goo.gl/rhHVyt) reports that North Miami Assistant Police Chief Neal Cuevas says officers responded to the scene Monday and began giving orders to 47-year-old Charles Kinsey and his 23-year-old patient to lie on the ground.
Police shoot autistic man's caretaker as he lies in streetThe largest public school district in Tennessee is under a federal civil rights investigation into bias allegations surrounding district officials' treatment of migrant children from Central America and their parents, U.S. Department of Education officials said Wednesday.
The department's Office for Civil Rights launched the investigation last week into "issues affecting English learners" as well as communications from Shelby County Schools officials with the children's parents, said spokeswoman Dorie Nolt.
Feds investigate Memphis school district over migrant biasMIAMI (AP) - The Latest on the Zika virus in Florida (all times local):
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Florida could be getting another $5.6 million in federal funding to assist in the fight against the Zika virus.
The White House reported in a news release Wednesday that President Barack Obama spoke by phone with Florida Gov.
The Latest: Additional $5.6 million to fight Zika in FloridaNAPA >> Napa County Health & Human Services Agency is scheduled to begin moving Aug. 12 to its new location -- the old Dey Labs facility -- 2751 Napa Valley Corporate Dr., Buildings A and B, county officials announced.
The move consolidates public health, mental health, child welfare services, public assistance programs, training and employment services, and alcohol and drug services into one campus.
Napa County Health & Human Services to move Aug. 12NEW YORK (AP) - Spooked by headlines about Zika, terrorism and mass shootings? Maybe the news is so bad you're ready to cancel your vacation and stay home. But can you recoup what you paid for flights, lodging, car rentals and tours?
The answer is, it depends. Your best bet for getting a refund no matter what is to buy an expensive type of insurance called "cancel for any reason" insurance when you book your trip.
Can insurance help if you cancel a trip out of fear?FREEPORT, Maine (AP) - L.L. Bean is recalling children's insulated water bottles because of concerns about lead contamination.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the bottles were imported by GSI Outdoors and sold by L.L. Bean from July 2015 through May 2016 for about $20. The 13.5-ounce bottles have five prints: sharks, dinosaur bones, camouflage, flowers and butterflies.
L.L. Bean recalls kids' water bottles over lead concernsA former Carolina Panthers player who received what the NFL deemed a career-ending concussion has sued Lloyd's of London for denying a $1 million insurance policy.
The lawsuit filed this week in North Carolina could become a test case for insurers dealing with the fallout from sports concussions and head trauma claims.
Ex-NFL player sues insurer for denying concussion claimLOS ANGELES (AP) - The Latest on a Los Angeles sewage spill that has forced closure of some beaches (all times local):
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About 5 miles of Southern California beaches remain closed due to a pipeline rupture that spilled sewage into the Los Angeles River.
Closures still in effect Wednesday include about 4 miles of sand in the port city of Long Beach and a mile of coast to the south in neighboring Seal Beach.
The Latest: Sewage spill closes some LA-area beachesMIAMI (AP) - The CDC is working with Florida health officials to investigate what could be the first Zika infection from a mosquito in the continental United States.
They say lab tests confirm a person in the Miami area is infected with the Zika virus, and there may not be any connection to someone traveling outside the country.
CDC, Florida probing possible Zika case from Miami mosquitoCLEVELAND (AP) - The Latest on demonstrations and gatherings outside the Republican National Convention (all times local):
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Health officials say no additional people have shown norovirus symptoms after members of the support team for the California delegation to the Republican National Convention got sick.
The Latest: No more people at RNC show norovirus symptomsOCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) - The owner of Ocean Aerial Ads in Maryland will pull political banners supporting Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump after a series of complaints.
News outlets report that the ads, which flew on banner planes for only one day, read "Stop Mad Cow Disease ... Stop Hillary" and "America First.
Ocean City business grounds Trump airplane bannersLOS ANGELES (AP) - Southern California waters that draw visitors from around the world are off-limits thanks to a million-gallon sewage spill.
A buried pipe some 20 miles away in Los Angeles collapsed, causing a blockage and a spill of 2.4 million gallons of raw sewage that belched stinky sludge onto streets and into storm drains.
LA-area Sewage spill brings closure of popular beach watersWESTPORT, Mass. (AP) - Police say officers have discovered hundreds of dead and injured animals, makeshift cabins, burning trash and illegal stoves on a 70-acre property in Massachusetts.
Police say Westport and Dartmouth officers searched a portion of the Westport land on Tuesday and found three goats that had to be euthanized, dead sheep and several other sick or injured farm animals in "deplorable conditions.
Police: Hundreds of dead, injured animals found on propertyNurses will be picketing Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center on Wednesday, as one of seven Kaiser hospitals across California to call attention to what they say is unsafe staffing and eroding standards of patient care, California Nurses Association (CNA) officials announced Tuesday.
CNA represents more than 18,000 Registered Nurses and nurse practitioners at 87 Kaiser hospitals and clinics statewide.
Kaiser nurses to picket at Vallejo, six other hospitals WednesdayNEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The Latest on TV soccer analyst who admitted accepting kickbacks for filling unneeded prescriptions for himself and recruiting others to the scheme (all times local):
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An official with Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union says the team is aware that a TV analyst has pleaded guilty to receiving nearly $500,000 in kickbacks for filling unneeded prescriptions for himself and recruiting others to the scheme.
The Latest: Pro soccer team reviewing analyst's guilty pleasNEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A TV analyst for Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union has pleaded guilty to receiving nearly $500,000 in kickbacks for filling prescriptions for medication.
Peter Pappas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health fraud Tuesday in federal court in Newark.
Pappas works in pharmaceuticals.
Pro soccer TV analyst pleads guilty to drug kickback schemeCLEVELAND (AP) - Eleven members of the planning team for the California delegation to the Republican convention were recovering Tuesday from a bout of norovirus, or what's commonly known as stomach flu, health officials said. No delegates appeared to be affected.
The symptoms, which can include vomiting and diarrhea, were first reported Thursday as logistics members arrived at a hotel about an hour west of Cleveland ahead of the Republican National Convention, said Pete Schade, Erie County health commissioner.
GOP convention planners come down with stomach fluSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The Latest on Covered California releasing rates for 2017 (all times local):
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Covered California says average monthly premiums will increase by more than 13 percent next year for people who buy health care coverage through the state's insurance exchange.
The Latest: Covered California rates to jump 13.2 percentCLEVELAND (AP) - The Latest on demonstrations and gatherings outside the Republican National Convention (all times local):
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Members of the support team for the California delegation to the Republican National Convention have been hit with a norovirus outbreak.
Health officials say about a dozen people are affected by the virus, with symptoms including vomiting and diarrhea.
The Latest: Norovirus hits California GOP logistics teamLONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - At least 1.5 million gallons of sewage spewed from a 90-year-old pipe that burst in an industrial area near downtown Los Angeles, leading ocean waters downriver in Long Beach to close, officials said Tuesday.
The top of the 60-inch sewer pipe collapsed Monday afternoon, causing a blockage and forcing it to overflow and belch a stinky sludge onto streets and into drains that flow into the concrete-bottomed Los Angeles River.
Los Angeles sewage spill shuts down ocean 20 miles awayHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - More than 50 former professional wrestlers sued World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., saying the company is responsible for repeated head trauma including concussions they suffered in the ring that led to long-term neurological damage.
Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, Joseph "Road Warrior Animal" Laurinaitis and Paul "Mr.
Ex-wrestlers, including Snuka, sue WWE over head injuriesFRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a Central California man has been sentenced to six months in prison for flashing a large laser pointer at a California Highway Patrol plane last year, briefly damaging the pilot's eyes.
The Fresno Bee reports (http://bit.ly/29VM73v ) Tuesday that 35-year-old Jeremy Scott Danielson of Clovis was also sentenced to three years of supervised release Monday.
Prison for California man who flashed laser at CHP planeJohnson & Johnson's second-quarter profit fell 11.5 percent, mainly due to a sizeable gain a year ago, but it easily beat Wall Street's expectations. The company also raised its full-year financial forecasts'
Its shares climbed in premarket trading Tuesday.
Sales of the health care giant's newest prescription drugs buoyed revenue and the effects of unfavorable exchange rates, which have been hurting U.
Johnson & Johnson tops 2Q forecasts despite profit dropSALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Health authorities in Utah are investigating a unique case of Zika found in a person who had been caring for a relative who had an unusually high level of the virus in his blood.
Exactly how the disease was transmitted is still a mystery, though the person has since recovered.
Unique Zika case of Utah caregiver under investigationCAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Has your child swallowed a small battery? In the future, a tiny robot made from pig gut could capture it and expel it.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are designing an ingestible robot that could be used to patch wounds, deliver medicine or dislodge a foreign object.
Having stomach troubles? Try swallowing an origami robotSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Covered California is preparing is preparing to release 2017 premium prices for people who buy health coverage through the state's health insurance exchange.
Tuesday's announcement comes as many other states report big increases in insurance premiums for the fourth year of President Barack Obama's health overhaul.
Covered California to release 2017 insurance ratesPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Embattled in controversy over high lead levels found in water sources at two schools, Portland Public Schools Superintendent Carole Smith said Monday she is stepping down effective immediately.
Just a month ago, Smith said she was retiring in 2017, ending her tenure at the 10-year-mark.
Embattled Portland, Oregon, superintendent steps downLAS VEGAS (AP) - A former nurse who authorities say killed himself shortly before exploding two powerful bombs targeting his former boss in a rural Nevada town had previously been investigated for unaccounted morphine at the hospital where he worked, state documents indicate.
The state said it investigated Glenn Franklin Jones for two incidents in 2015 involving morphine at Grover C.
State: Man had nursing license revoked before Nevada bombingSAN DIEGO (AP) - Health officials say a baby from San Diego has died from whooping cough.
The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency said Monday the 5-week-old died last week. No other details are immediately available.
It's the second whooping cough death in California this year.
Health officials: Baby in San Diego dies from whooping coughNEW YORK (AP) - Health officials are trying to unravel how a relative may have picked up a Zika infection from a Utah man who died.
The tropical virus rarely spreads from person to person, not like the flu or the measles. The virus can pass from a pregnant woman to her fetus and cause birth defects.
How does Zika spread? Utah infection raises new questionsSEATTLE (AP) - The Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a $425 million settlement with two companies to reduce air pollution at six petroleum refineries in the West.
The agreement with Tesoro Corp. and Par Hawaii Refining resolves alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act and requires installment of new equipment to control emissions.
Air pollution reduction settlement reached for 6 refineriesLANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - Hundreds of protesters have called for the resignation of a Pennsylvania animal shelter executive director who decided not to rescue a puppy recently found near death.
LNP newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/29V6YCW) more than 400 people gathered Sunday outside of the Lancaster County SPCA and demanded Susan Martin's resignation.
Animal welfare exec sees protests over dog found near deathSALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah health officials say a man who died after being infected with Zika virus passed it to a caregiver, creating a medical mystery about how it spread between them.
The Salt Lake County Health Department said Monday that the two people didn't have sexual contact and the type of mosquito that mainly spreads the virus is not found in the high-altitude area where they live.
Caregiver gets Zika from man who died in medical mysteryCHICAGO (AP) - A new study says fracking may worsen asthma in children and adults who live near sites where the oil and gas drilling method is used.
The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that asthma treatments were as much as four times more common in patients living closer to areas with more or bigger wells than in those living far away.
Fracking may worsen asthma for nearby residents, study saysFirst, you were supposed to die at 85. Then 90. Now 95 and even 100 are common defaults when financial planners tell people how much to save for retirement.
Except that's nuts.
In the U.S., the typical man at age 65 is expected to live another 18 years. The typical woman, about 20. Yet many financial planners contend we should save as if we're all going to be centenarians.
Should You Save Enough to Live to 100?BOSTON (AP) - The founder and president of the Black AIDS Institute will receive the GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders' 2016 Spirit of Justice Award.
Phill Wilson was an early voice on HIV in the black community. His activism began when he and his partner were diagnosed with HIV in the early 1980s.
Black AIDS Institute founder to get Spirit of Justice AwardSEDONA, Ariz. (AP) - A barrier that would surround the railing of a Sedona area bridge where people have jumped to their deaths is getting closer to construction.
The Sedona City Council will discuss the barrier proposed for Midgley Bridge by the Arizona Department of Transportation at a meeting July 26.
Sedona bridge to get barrier to stop jumpersSTUART, Fla. (AP) - The enormous algae outbreak that has coated swaths of Florida's St. Lucie River with guacamole-like sludge is a man-made affliction, arising from political and economic decisions made over the past 140 years.
Chasing dollars, Florida land developers and their government allies broke up nature's flow that used rivers, Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades to move water south from central Florida to the Florida Bay at the peninsula's tip.
Curing Florida's algae crisis will take time, money, scienceHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Jay Fishman finds it more comfortable these days to use a wheelchair to get around, and has begun getting some help breathing from a portable ventilator.
The former Travelers CEO says he's in "the final innings" of his battle with Lou Gehrig's disease, the terminal neurodegenerative condition also called ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Travelers using PGA Tour stop to help former CEO battle ALSLEONIA, N.J. (AP) - Authorities have recovered a motorized wheelchair stolen from a teenager with cerebral palsy and arrested the man who allegedly took it.
Leonia police say 18-year-old Michael Peralta is charged with theft and unlawful taking of a means of conveyance. Bail was set at $25,000 cash for the Palisades Park, New Jersey, man, and it wasn't known Saturday if he's retained an attorney.
Cops recover wheelchair stolen from teen with cerebral palsyAs a cardiologist, I have a bird's-eye view of behavior that can enhance or detract from patients' abilities to both prevent and recover from cardiovascular issues. It's particularly troubling to see so much denial -- especially among men -- that they even have a problem, as well as the power to do something about it.
Solano Coalition For Better Health: Don't forget your heartSolano County children who have experienced trauma, violence and loss have a new resource as Kaiser Permanente in the Napa Solano area is partnering with the Children's Nurturing Project through the Solano County Trauma Recovery Center, Kaiser officials announced.
Through their Volunteers in Public Service program, Kaiser psychiatrists will consult on six cases each month, "providing guidance and support to the clinicians and staff at the (center).
Kaiser announces partnership for traumatized Solano childrenNEW ORLEANS (AP) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a north Louisiana business is recalling more than 21,500 pounds of catfish products for hotels, restaurants and other institutions in six states.
The recall by Haring Catfish Inc. of Wisner involves products that USDA says may contain residue of a chemical called gentian violet.
USDA: Louisiana co. recalls catfish productsHONOLULU (AP) - Medical marijuana dispensaries can now legally open in Hawaii, but not one is ready to do so.
The state Department of Health says none of the state's eight dispensaries has been approved to open.
One big hurdle is the state hasn't certified a lab to test the dispensaries' products.
Hawaii pot dispensaries can legally open, but none are readyHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - U.S. Navy officials say they won't fund blood tests for tens of thousands of suburban Philadelphia residents who may have been exposed to contaminated water.
Chemicals were found in public drinking water supplies two years ago near the former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Horsham, the former Naval Air Warfare Center in Warminster and the active Horsham Air Guard Station.
Navy: No funding for blood tests over contaminated waterTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Prosecutors in Alabama have announced more arrests and elder abuse charges in the treatment of a 93-year-old woman at a nursing home who wouldn't take her medicine.
Alabama Attorney General's spokesman Mike Lewis tells the Tuscaloosa News (http://bit.ly/29WTfh4 ) that Monica Danielle Adams and Marilyn Annese Marshall are accused of holding the patient down while another nurse's aide punched her.
Nursing aides accused of abusing 93-year-old Alabama womanDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Latest on the summer meeting of the National Governors Association in Iowa (all times local):
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell says the Obama administration will continue lobbying Congress for more money to help states fight the opioid epidemic.
The Latest: Burwell calls for more funding for opioid crisisAUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been released after four nights in the hospital for treatment of severe burns he suffered while vacationing last week.
Spokesman Matt Hirsch said Abbott left San Antonio's Brooke Army Medical Center on Friday and is returning to the governor's mansion in Austin.
Texas governor released from hospital after burn treatmentDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - In less than a year, eggs have gone from being an expensive staple at the height of the bird flu crisis to reaching the cheapest prices in a decade due to fully restocked poultry barns.
But the demand for eggs has been stifled because bakeries and companies using powdered eggs in things like pancake mixes learned to cook without as many of them, and countries that stopped accepting eggs from the U.
Egg prices reach 10-year lows as production outpaces demandSAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Officials warn that areas of two California lakes that have turned bright green could make you and your dog sick.
State water officials say they've have found algae blooming in the Pit River arm of Lake Shasta in Northern California and areas of Pyramid Lake in Los Angeles County.
State: Don't swim in 2 California lakes turned bright greenNEW YORK (AP) - Federal regulators closed an investigation of the multinational, nutritional supplements company Herbalife, which has for years been dogged by accusations that it was run as an elaborate pyramid scheme.
Though Herbalife was ordered to restructure its U.S. operations and pay a $200 million settlement Friday, it avoided being classified by the U.
Herbalife dodges most serious charges from USNEW YORK (AP) - A New York City woman has infected her male partner with Zika virus through sex, the first time female-to-male transmission of the germ has been documented.
Zika is usually spread by mosquitoes, and health officials have known for some time that men can spread it through sex.
Woman found to spread Zika through sex for 1st timeSAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Civil Grand Jury report says the San Francisco jail system serves as a "default mental institution" due to the high number of inmates with mental health problems and needs better staffing, training and procedures for communicating and tracking information about inmates.
KTVU reports (http://bit.
Grand Jury: SF jail system serves as default mental facilityPHILADELPHIA (AP) - In all of last year, there were only 22 days when someone wasn't shot in Philadelphia. Nearly 1 in 5 victims died.
Now, in a bold effort to stem the bloodshed, several Philadelphia hospitals are about to conduct a citywide experiment that will ask: When gunshot or stabbing victims are being rushed to the emergency room by ambulance, could paramedics do more to save them by doing less?
It's a counterintuitive approach that could test long-held beliefs and change practices at trauma centers across the country.
Philadelphia conducting experiment to save gunshot victimsNEW YORK (AP) - Herbalife to pay $200 million fine and "fully restructure their U.S. business operations" in settlement with federal regulators.
Herbalife to pay $200 million fine and "fully restructure their U.S. business operations" in settlement with federal regulatorsSPRINGFIELD, N.H. (AP) - Jessie Levine smiles and shakes her head when she hears the outgoing voicemail message on her iPhone.
"I sound young! And fast!" she marvels. "That person never, ever expected to talk like this."
The message was recorded before Levine was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, or ALS, in early 2015, and before the progressive motor neuron disease caused her speech to become slow and slurred.
Technology gives unique voices to those who can't speakROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) - Officials say roughly 200 children ages 5-12 who attended a day camp at a suburban Detroit gym may have been exposed to bacterial meningitis from an infected worker.
George Miller, director of Oakland County Department of Health and Human Services, held a news conference Wednesday to discuss the response.
Caution urged after camp worker gets bacterial meningitisNEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) - Authorities say their investigation into the death of Grammy-winning Tejano star Emilio Navaira (nah-VY'-rah) shows he died of natural causes due to cardiovascular disease.
The New Braunfels Police Department said Thursday that it's completed its investigation into the 53-year-old singer's death and found no sign of foul play.
Police: Tejano singer Emilio Navaira died of natural causesTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A man known as the "prison Houdini" for his numerous escapes was given a path to freedom Thursday, 36 years after being convicted of stealing mechanic tools his father bequeathed to him.
Florida's parole board voted 2-1 to set a July 26 release date, choosing to get Mark DeFriest help for mental health issues and prepare him for the world outside of prison rather than punish him for acting out after a series of recent missteps left him in solitary confinement in an Oregon prison.
Florida parole board sets path to freedom for prison HoudiniCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - As Donald Trump seeks to unify the fractured GOP around his presidential candidacy, protest groups will gather outside the Republican National Convention to raise their voices on issues from the party's nominee and agenda, to immigration reform and poverty, and race relations and police accountability.
Concerns over violence as protesters head to ClevelandTULSA, Okla. (AP) - A former Oklahoma oral surgeon whose filthy clinics led to thousands of patients being tested for HIV and hepatitis is awaiting his sentence on a charge stemming from the case.
W. Scott Harrington is due in federal court Thursday. He's pleaded guilty to fraudulently billing Medicaid and agreed to pay nearly $30,000 in restitution.
Dentist with dirty clinics that led to HIV tests in courtBOSTON (AP) - For the second time in two months, the highest court in Massachusetts has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of causing serious injuries by violently shaking a child.
The Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday vacated the conviction of a man found guilty of shaking his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter.
Man convicted in shaken baby syndrome case gets new trialLOS ANGELES (AP) - A lawsuit claims a woman suffered a broken ankle on a recently opened glass-enclosed slide attached to the exterior of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper.
City News Service says the lawsuit filed Wednesday against building owner OUE Skyspace LLC and a concession company claims negligence.
Lawsuit claims broken ankle on LA skyscraper slideBOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts medical examiner's office has ruled that former New England Patriots defensive lineman Ron Brace likely died from an irregular heartbeat combined with a heart condition caused by high blood pressure.
An agency spokesman confirmed the cause of death Wednesday.
The manner of death was ruled natural and is not considered suspicious.
Medical examiner: Ex-Patriot Brace died of heart conditionWASHINGTON (AP) - The House backed legislation designed to circumvent a California order that requires health insurance companies to pay for elective abortions.
The legislation passed 245-182 on a mostly party-line vote on Wednesday. Republicans say the California order upheld by the Obama administration last month would discriminate against companies and employees that oppose abortion on ethical and moral grounds.
House bill allows companies to deny abortion coverageIOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Nearly every U.S. governor pledged Wednesday to combat the opioid crisis that is leaving a trail of overdose deaths and misery in their states.
At least 45 state governors signed on to the Compact to Fight Opioid Addiction committing to fight the epidemic, fueled by the overprescribing of prescription pain relievers.
In rare show of unity, governors vow to fight opioid crisisNEW YORK (AP) - The upcoming Olympic games are not likely to have a major impact on the spread of Zika virus, although four developing countries could face a substantially higher risk, according to a new government estimate.
U.S. researchers tried to calculate whether the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which is in the midst of a Zika epidemic, will lead to outbreaks that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
Low risk in all but 4 countries of Olympics-related ZikaNEW YORK (AP) - New York City is becoming the nation's first city to require free tampons and sanitary pads in public schools, homeless shelters and jails.
Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH'-zee-oh) signed the measures Wednesday. The City Council approved them last month.
Schools, shelters and lockups already provide the supplies for free, to some extent.
NYC law requires tampons in public schools, jailsSAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal study shows half of U.S. states have a high percentage of wells with water corrosive enough to leach lead from pipes.
U.S. Geological Survey researchers said Wednesday their study was the largest yet of groundwater that supplies the 44 million Americans who use private wells.
Study: Pipe-corroding well water prevalent in half of statesPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Two best friends from Rhode Island are living their dream of making an epic zombie movie and becoming celebrities.
Sam Suchmann and Mattie Zufelt, both 20, have Down syndrome.
"Down syndrome causes us to think slower than others, but we don't let that get in the way," Suchmann says.
Best friends with Down syndrome make epic zombie movieJUPITER, Fla. (AP) - A professional kitesurfer is expected to recover after falling 150 feet from his motorized paraglider in Florida.
The Palm Beach Post quotes a friend of 34-year-old Damien LeRoy (http://pbpo.st/29C16xY ) as saying that LeRoy had been flying over the sands near the Juno Beach Pier on Monday evening when his steering equipment failed.
Pro kitesurfer injured after 150-foot fall from paragliderCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Newly arrived space station astronaut Kate Rubins wore top-level biosafety suits for her work on Earth, but that won't be needed when she fires up a pocket-sized device to decode DNA in space.
Rubins, who studied Ebola and other deadly viruses before becoming an astronaut, will be working with harmless test samples.
First virus-hunter in space will test device to decode DNAATLANTA (AP) - Lawyers for a Georgia inmate scheduled to die this week are asking the state parole board to consider his extremely violent childhood and his transformation over more than three decades on death row.
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles was holding a hearing Wednesday to allow representatives for John Wayne Conner to argue on his behalf.
Lawyers urge parole board to spare death row inmate's lifeCHICAGO (AP) - The Cook County Sheriff's Office says a jail inmate has tested positive for Legionnaires' disease in what appears to be an isolated case.
The office said in a statement Tuesday that a detainee who had been hospitalized since July 6 with pneumonia-like symptoms tested positive for the disease.
Sheriff's office says Cook County inmate has Legionnaires'NEW YORK (AP) - New York City health officials are warning people about the dangers of using the synthetic marijuana K2 after more than two dozen people were sickened in an apparent mass drug overdose on a city street corner.
It happened Tuesday in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
33 sickened in apparent mass drug overdose in New York CityNEW YORK (AP) - William H. McNeill, an award-winning world historian and author, has died.
McNeill died Friday in Torrington, Connecticut, at age 98. His death was confirmed by Steve Koppes, associate news director at the University of Chicago, where McNeill was a professor emeritus.
McNeill's "The Rise of the West" was among the most acclaimed works of the 20th century as it wove the history of civilizations worldwide into a single narrative.
William H McNeill, prize-winning world historian, dead at 98SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered Utah to keep sending money to the state branch of Planned Parenthood, overturning an unusual lower-court ruling that allowed the governor to block the group's funding.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver decided there's a good chance the move was politically motivated and violated the group's constitutional rights.
Appeals court orders Utah to fund Planned Parenthood branchCHICAGO (AP) - Illinois regulators are moving to shut down a struggling health insurance co-op with 49,000 Illinois policyholders.
Illinois Department of Insurance officials announced Tuesday they are seeking a court order to take over Land of Lincoln Health and prepare the company for liquidation.
Illinois moves to shut down failing insurance co-opRICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The National Federation of State High School Associations has told its members to adopt a rule regulating the number of pitches a high school pitcher can throw in a game.
The federation did not proscribe a specific number. NFHS director of sports and student services Elliot Hopkins said Tuesday it simply wants local associations legislate a pitch count by next season.
High school federation mandates pitch counts in 2017SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Latest on a federal appeals decision ordering Utah to continue sending money to the state branch of Planned Parenthood in a defunding fight (all times local):
3:05 p.m.
The head of the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah says an appeals court ruling blocking a state defunding order is a victory for patients.
The Latest: Planned Parenthood calls ruling patient victorySALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Latest on a federal appeals decision ordering Utah to continue sending money to the state branch of Planned Parenthood in a defunding fight (all times local):
3:05 p.m.
The head of the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah says an appeals court ruling blocking a state defunding order is a victory for patients.
The Latest: Planned Parenthood calls ruling patient victoryDENVER (AP) - A hospital surgery technician accused of stealing painkiller syringes, possibly exposing patients to HIV, has pleaded guilty to federal charges in Denver.
Rocky Allen pleaded guilty Tuesday to tampering with a consumer product and obtaining a controlled substance by deception for taking a syringe containing fentanyl from a suburban Denver hospital in January.
HIV-positive surgery tech pleads guilty in painkiller theftPHILADELPHIA (AP) - In a story July 11 about the death of scientist and cancer researcher Dr. Alfred G. Knudson Jr., The Associated Press misidentified a funeral home. It was the Oliver H. Bair Funeral Home, not the Oliver H. Blair Funeral Home.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Famed cancer theorist Dr.
Correction: Obit-Knudson storyBOSTON (AP) - A Harvard Law School professor who taught Barack and Michelle Obama says he has Alzheimer's disease and is vowing to fight it.
Charles Ogletree says he came forward to help encourage others not to fear the dreaded diagnosis.
Ogletree represented Anita Hill when she accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his U.
Harvard Law professor who taught Obamas: I have Alzheimer'sTwenty local students from Kaiser Permanente's Napa/Solano area are working at paid internships at Kaiser facilities in Vallejo and Vacaville as part of a program called KP LAUNCH, Kaiser officials announced.
This is the 48th year that Kaiser Permanente is hosting the program, through which hundreds of students aged 16 to 20 are selected from a competitive pool of applicants to work in various departments at its medical centers throughout California, they said.
Ten Vallejo teens get paid summer internship at KaiserNEW YORK (AP) - A drug to treat severe postpartum depression showed positive results in a mid-stage study, sending shares developer Sage Therapeutics skyrocketing.
There are no approved drugs that specifically treat a type of depression that, according to the American Psychological Association, afflicts up to one in seven women who give birth.
Sage Therapeutics surges on postpartum depression drug studyPITTSBURGH (AP) - A transplant patient who contracted a fungal infection while at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has died.
Fifty-six-year-old Dan Krieg is the fifth known UPMC patient with a fungal infection to die since 2014 amid a federal investigation into mold cases at the health system's facilities.
5th Pittsburgh hospital patient with mold infection diesSALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah health officials say the Zika-infected person who died last week of an undetermined cause was a man.
Salt Lake County Health Department spokesman Pam Davenport confirmed the gender Monday of first person in the continental United States to die while infected with the virus.
Officials confirm Zika-related death in Utah was a manMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Lawyers for abortion providers have asked a federal judge to block new Alabama laws that ban abortion clinics near schools as well as the procedure most commonly used in the second trimester.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a request for a temporary restraining order before the laws go into effect Aug.
Clinics ask judge to block Alabama abortion restrictionsAUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will spend the night in the hospital and undergo skin grafts on his feet after suffering second- and third-degree burns on his feet and both legs below the knees.
Abbott's office says he'll undergo skin grafts Tuesday at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio to repair damage on his feet after coming into contact with scalding water last week.
Texas governor to have skin grafts, spend night in hospitalNEW YORK (AP) - A New York City patient was infected with bacteria that had a special type of resistance to antibiotics last year, the earliest known case in the U.S. of bacteria that could lead to a superbug impervious to medications.
The bacteria were found in a patient who was treated in May of 2015 and reported in a study published Monday.
Q&A: Superbug precursor found in US againNEW YORK (AP) - Starbucks is boosting the base pay of all employees and store managers at U.S. company-run stores by 5 percent or more on Oct. 3.
In a letter sent to workers Monday, CEO Howard Schultz said that the amount of the raise will be determined by geographic and market factors. Starbucks doesn't disclose specifics on starting salaries for employees, saying it's determined on a market by market basis.
Starbucks increases base pay of workers in OctoberCHICAGO (AP) - During their working years, women tend to earn less than men, and when they retire, they're more likely to live in poverty.
These are women who raised children and cared for sick and elderly family members, often taking what savings and income they had and spending it on things besides their own retirement security.
Women more likely than men to face poverty during retirementThis photo gallery highlights some of the top images last week by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Italian dancers in Colombia's capital amazed watchers as they appeared to float in the air with their performance "From Hell to Paradise. Trips of the Soul." Bogota also hosted its annual gay pride parade.
AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, CaribbeanDALLAS (AP) - Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas sustained "extensive second- and third-degree burns" on both legs below the knees and on both feet and could miss next week's Republican National Convention.
Spokesman Matt Hirsch said Sunday that Abbott was in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Thursday when he was scalded in an accident involving hot water.
Texas governor burned in accident; could miss GOP conventionNEW YORK (AP) - Chaka Khan and her sister have both entered a drug rehabilitation program to battle their addictions to prescription drugs, and Kahn says the death of her good friend Prince helped hasten her decision to get help.
In a statement on Sunday, the singer said she has been battling an addiction to the same medication that led to Prince's death.
Chaka Khan and sister enter rehab over prescription drugsSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Frustrated by the rising cost of prescription drugs, California health advocates hope sunlight and a dose of shame might discourage drugmakers from raising their prices too quickly or introducing new medications at prices that break the bank.
They're promoting legislation that would require drugmakers to provide advance notice before making big price increases.
Advocates hope shaming drugmakers discourages price spikesCHICAGO (AP) - During their working years, women tend to earn less than men, and when they retire, they're more likely to live in poverty.
These are women who raised children and cared for sick and elderly family members, often taking what savings and income they do have and spending it on things besides their own retirement security.
Women more likely than men to face poverty during retirementORLANDO, Florida (AP) - Hillary Clinton has a new proposal to increase federal money for community health centers.
It's one more nod to her primary rival, Bernie Sanders, who's pushed for additional dollars for what are known as federally qualified health centers. He's yet to endorse Clinton - the presumptive Democratic presidential primary - as the national convention nears.
In nod to Sanders, Clinton offers new health care proposalATLANTA (AP) - An execution scheduled for Thursday would be the sixth in Georgia this year - the most executions carried out by the state in a calendar year since the death penalty was reinstated four decades ago.
John Wayne Conner, 60, is scheduled to die by injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson.
Georgia set to execute sixth inmate this yearSAN DIEGO (AP) - The drowning of a sailor who was repeatedly pushed underwater by an instructor during Navy SEAL basic training raises a host of questions, beginning perhaps with this: Why would a highly elite unit made up of some of the toughest, fittest warriors ever to wear a uniform take someone with an enlarged heart and maybe asthma or allergies?
An enlarged heart would not have shown up in the medical exams that sailors are routinely subjected to before they are accepted for SEAL basic training, said Dr.
SEAL trainee's medical history questioned after drowningDALLAS (AP) - U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson is withdrawing from the Olympics because he is concerned about the Zika virus.
Johnson becomes the 13th player to pull out of the field for the Rio Games, where golf makes its return after a 112-year absence. Patrick Reed is expected to replace him.
Dustin Johnson to skip Olympics to due to concern about ZikaSolano County property values are rising, so, property tax rates won't be far behind.
Property values in Solano County rose 6 percent compared to the last fiscal year, county officials announced and property owners here should watch their mail for a notice from the county assessor-recorder's office on whether their property taxes are going up.
Rising Solano County property values may mean rising property taxesWhen you forget a familiar name, book title or recipe, do you worry that Alzheimer's may be in your future? You're not alone.
As the number of people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia rises, it's common to second guess our memory and analyze our every deficit. Right now in Solano County, 7,500 people are living with some form of dementia and 23,000 are either receiving or giving care.
Solano Coalition for Better Health: Normal aging or early signs of dementia?NEW YORK (AP) - The latest round of class-action concussion lawsuits against the NCAA were filed by former college football players from Stanford, Boston College, North Carolina, Wake Forest and BYU.
The lawsuits were filed in federal courts late Thursday by Chicago-based attorney Jay Edelson.
More ex-college football players sue NCAA over concussionsCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal jury says DuPont should pay $500,000 in punitive damages to an Ohio man in a chemical illness lawsuit.
The Columbus Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/29oAA7O ) the jury decided the amount Friday.
Earlier this week, the same jury said DuPont Co. acted with malice by dumping chemical-tainted water from its West Virginia plant into the Ohio River.
Ohio man awarded $500,000 in punitive damages in DuPont caseSALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah health officials say a person infected with Zika has died, and while the exact cause is unclear, it marks the first death related to the virus in the continental U.S.
Authorities said Friday that the unidentified Salt Lake County resident traveled abroad to an area with a Zika outbreak.
1st death related to Zika virus seen in continental USMINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - Environmental groups have filed a federal lawsuit in New York seeking to block the sale of Plum Island, home to the nation's only animal disease testing laboratory.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday on Long Island by Save the Sound, a program of Connecticut Fund for the Environment, and others.
APNewsBreak: Federal suit seeks to block sale of Plum Island