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  • Did Mother Lose Custody Over Poppy Seeds? Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:42AMA Pennsylvania woman is suing the Lawrence County Department of Children and Youth Services for taking custody of her newborn son after she tested positive for opiates, a result her lawyer says, of her eating poppy seeds.
  • DNDi's new drug development programme for children with HIV/AIDS Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:39AMToday at the 6th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) announced the launch of a new drug development programme to address critical unmet treatment needs of children with HIV/AIDS.
  • Air traffic controller drunk on the job? Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:33AMFAA confirms investigation into Colorado controller after he came up positive in random test at work
  • And octogenarian gets her own house Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:29AMLIFE for an elderly woman from Chalumna village changed yesterday when she received a house from Buffalo City Metro executive mayor Zukiswa Ncitha yesterday.
  • New drug-chemo combo offers promise for aggressive breast cancers Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:28AMWashington, July 19 (ANI): Researchers at Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have found that combining a new class of anti-cancer agent with conventional chemotherapy offers improved results for some of the most aggressive breast cancer.
  • Lance Armstrong Goes to Court over US Doping Probe Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:24AMThe legal team for cycling superstar Lance Armstrong, who is under federal investigation for doping, has asked a U.S. judge to probe apparent leaks of secret grand jury proceedings examining the sport.
  • U.S. News & World Report names UT Southwestern as nation's best hospital Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:09AMFor the second year in a row, UT Southwestern Medical Center is the top-ranked hospital in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, according to U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of the nation's best hospitals.
  • ‘My husband faked his death’ Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:59AMONE of the wives who reportedly benefited from ex-ANC boss Zolani Xego’s "fake death" has admitted to benefiting from an insurance policy cashed in when he " died".
  • New drug for osteoporosis Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:56AMIn early stages, doctors recommend calcium supplements, but as the condition worsens treatment moves to drug therapies, ranging from daily pills to yearly IV infusions. "They all work very well in helping to reduce the number of fractures in women going forward but they also have side effects," says Dr. Heligman.
  • Poppy seeds led to drug test's false results Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:14PMLast time, it was a bagel with poppy seeds. This time, it's pasta salad containing the tiny kernels that caused a positive test for opiates at Jameson Hospital, and the subsequent seizure of a newborn from his mother by Lawrence County, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
  • First-Place Sweep by American Girls at First Google Science Fair Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:14PMAs a budding inventor and scientist, Shree Bose, in second grade, tried to make blue spinach. In fourth grade she built a remote-controlled garbage can. In eighth grade she invented a railroad tie made out of recycled plastic and granite dust, an achievement that got her to the top 30 in a national science competition for middle school students.
  • DIY blood test frees you from GP checks Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:07PMA self-monitoring device has been developed allowing patients to test their blood at home. The test uses a finger-prick blood test and delivers almost instant results.
  • Secrets of Somali pirates revealed in new book, written by Canadian who lived among them Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:05PMNAIROBI, Kenya - The pirates were nervous. A rookie author — a white man from Canada — had unexpectedly arrived in their cliff-top Somali village to ask about the captured ship anchored offshore.
  • Another mother sues over Jameson prenatal drug testing Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:01PMEileen Bower, 22, of New Castle says in a federal civil rights lawsuit that poppy seeds caused her to test positive for traces of opiates on a drug test on July 12, 2009, the day before she gave birth to her son Brandon.
  • Controversial Cholesterol Drug Might Lower Blood Sugar Levels in Diabetics Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:52PMMONDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) -- Australian researchers have discovered that a drug initially designed to raise levels of "good" HDL cholesterol has an unexpected benefit in people with type 2 diabetes: it lowered their blood sugar.
  • Eagle County drinking water passes test Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:41PMEagle River Water & Sanitation District lab analyst Maria Strausbaugh tests a sample of tap water for chlorine Friday at the wastewater-treatment plant in Avon.
  • New Anti Cancer Agents Show Promise For Treating Aggressive Breast Cancers Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:41PMCANBERRA, July 19 (Bernama) -- Some of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer are more vulnerable to chemotherapy when it is combined with a new class of anti-cancer agent, researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have shown.
  • Magnussen fit for Shanghai meet Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:31PMSPRINT swim star James Magnussen says he's rapidly recovering from pneumonia and is confident of being ready to test the world's best in Shanghai.
  • Swimmer Magnussen on the mend Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:29PMRising sprint swimming star James Magnussen is confident he will recover from a bout of pneumonia to test himself against the world's best in Shanghai.
  • Move to replace self-checkout lanes bypassing Utah Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 1:35AMMove to replace self-checkout lanes bypassing Utah STAFF and news services Published Jul 16, 2011 07:02PM MDT Ten years after self-checkout lanes debuted in many American supermarkets, some chains are beginning to rethink the option or do away with them altogether, although big changes apparently aren’t coming to Utah anytime soon. Beginning this month, Albertsons LLC is removing the self ...
  • North Koreans fail drug test, blame lightning strike treatment Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 1:18AMWhen North Korea's failed Women's World Cup team claimed (only after their opening match loss to the U.S.) that several members of the squad were struck by lightning mere weeks before the tournament, I don't think anyone could have predicted that the tale would grow even more fantastical long after their elimination. Well, it has. Five players tested positive for steroids during the tournament ...
  • Confronting the Superbug Crisis Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 12:50AMEvolution doesn't play favourites. As a mindless, undirected process, natural selection is utterly unconcerned with the wants and wishes of living things, from worms to humans. It just does what it does and if we suffer as a result, evolution will shed no tears.[...]
  • Five North Korean Soccer Players Test Positive for Steroids Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 12:46AMFRANKFURT, Germany -- North Korea officials blamed traditional musk deer gland medicine used after a lightning strike for five positive tests for steroids at the Women's World Cup, the biggest soccer doping scandal at a major tournament in 17 years.
  • Genesis in Melbourne is a house of hope Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 12:35AMGenesis House gives women a place to go when they have no place else to go.
  • Cumberland student athletes no longer tested for drugs Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:37AMThere will no longer be drug testing for student athletes in Cumberland County.
  • Dealer is jailed after drugs in hat blunder Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:34AMA drug dealer has been jailed for six years – after inadvertently directing police to his stash of cocaine and heroin.
  • Police and Community briefs - July 15 Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:31AMPublished: Friday, July 15, 2011 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 6:55 p.m. Drilling equipment valued at $8,500 was stolen from a local business.
  • FDA asks Guided Therapeutics to provide additional information on LuViva PMA Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:29AMGuided Therapeutics, Inc., developer of a rapid and painless biophotonic testing platform for the early detection of cancer, today announced that, after a series of meetings with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and after reviewing draft responses, the FDA has asked the company to provide additional information in the company's response to one remaining question.
  • Asthma Placebo "As Effective As Active Drug" Study Unveils Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:22AMAsthma and many ailments can be partially just in your head research released this week claims. A new study finds that the power of the placebo effect versus albuterol inhalers left asthma patients thinking that real and fake drugs were doing the same level of good. The results even convinced patients they were breathing much better even if they hadn't taken a real drug and hadn't actually ...
  • Anavex to present at Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:09AMHOBOKEN, NJ, July 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("Anavex") (OTCBB: AVXL) today announced that new data on ANAVEX 2-73, the company's lead compound for Alzheimer's disease (AD) currently in Phase I clinical trials, will be presented in two poster sessions at the 2011 Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (AAICAD) in Paris, France. Both ANAVEX ...
  • MLB Hall of Fame: 10 Myths That Are Keeping PED Users out of Cooperstown Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:44AMBaseball is full of vigorous debates. Sabermetrics vs. traditional statistics, Ruth vs. Bonds, Yankees vs. Red Sox, the list goes on. Fans of our national pastime have plenty to argue about. Perhaps no issue makes fans and writers' blood boil like the question of whether performance-enhancing drug users should be allowed into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, much of the ...
  • Study sheds light on the way antibodies distinguish between different 'biomarkers' Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:30AMA new research paper sheds light on the way antibodies distinguish between different but closely related 'biomarkers' - proteins which reveal information about the condition of the human body.
  • Berks County's Department of Health advises public about possible measles exposure Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:01AMThe state Department of Health is advising the public of a possible case of measles exposure in Morgantown, Berks County.
  • Waterville District Court: May 28-June 17, 2011 Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 12:01AMWATERVILLE -- The following cases were closed May 28, 2011, to June 17, 2011 in Waterville District Court:
  • After Harry Potter, Tom Felton Stars in “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:53PMHarry Potter’s Tom Felton a.k.a. Draco Malfoy will next be seen in his post-Harry role in the upcoming event-movie “ Rise of the Planet of the Apes .” His work in the “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” marks another inventive villainous turn following his role as the bullying Malfoy for which he was recently awarded an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain. Will Rodman ( James Franco ) is a scientist ...
  • Obama vs. Cantor: Tempers Flare As Debt Ceiling Negotiations Take a Dramatic Turn Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:53PMPresident Obama and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor engaged in a high stakes test of wills at Wednesday’s debt ceiling negotiations in the White House, trading dramatic ultimatums in the most intense round of talks yet. With tempers boiling over, Cantor took his grievances public in an unprecedented press conference after Obama issued a veto [...]
  • Celebrate the Release of Deathly Hallows – Part 2: Win a DVD Box Set of the First 6 Harry Potter Films Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:36PM*In the spirit of the epic Harry Potter series, which culminates in the release of the final film of Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 this Friday, July 15th, EURweb has a DVD box set of the first 6 films to give away. And you can WIN it! OK, here’s [...]
  • Roger Clemens’s Lawyer Casts Rocket as Victim of Congressional Bean Ball Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:28PMRoger Clemens wasn’t going to be portrayed as a victim at his trial for allegedly lying to Congress about using steroids, the ex-Major League Baseball pitcher’s lead defense lawyer told a federal jury in Washington.
  • Alzheimer's Brain Protein Scanning Moves Forward Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:18PMTitle: Alzheimer's Brain Protein Scanning Moves Forward Category: Health News Created: 7/12/2011 2:05:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 7/13/2011
  • Nothing magic about mushrooms seized from home Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:16PMThey were shiitake mushrooms after all. Prosecutors dismissed a drug- trafficking charge against Edward Spearman, 30, after tests showed mushrooms and other materials Walterboro police obtained from his home in May contained no controlled substances.
  • Movie capsules: What's playing at Erie's Tinseltown, Millcreek 6 and Movies at Meadville, July 14-July 20 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:16PMNEW SPECIAL EVENT MOVIES
  • How to handle reactions to insulin Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:09PMDear Dr. Donohue: My husband has had diabetes for five years. He took it seriously, lost weight and followed his diet. He was on oral medicines, and his diabetes was well controlled, according to his doctor. However, something happened in the past four...
  • Call to start PSA test at 35 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:03PMMEN AS YOUNG as 35 years old are testing positive for prostatitis and prostate cancer.  
  • Football must be real endurance test to weed out dopes Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:49PMPHEW.
  • Asthma study reveals the power of the placebo effect Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:35PMThe placebo effect is alive and well, at least for patients with acute asthma.
  • Mexican Military Commander Removed Following Disappearance Investigation Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:33PMThe Mexican Secretariat of National Defense has just announced that it will transfer a leading military commander to another state, right in the middle of an investigation that ties his subordinates to the alleged kidnapping, torture and murder of a civilian in the city of Cuernavaca.
  • Two men arrested at Trestle Park Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:31PMAdrian police say two men were arrested at 12:46 a.m. Sunday at Trestle Park off Grand Street on separate charges after they were seen at the park after hours.
  • Projects get Grand Challenges Explorations funding Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:29PMSAN FRANCISCO — The University of California, San Francisco, announced today (July 13) that it will receive additional funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges.
  • DPS mulls pot probe at utility Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:17PMDespite Chairman's request, DPS has not sent a drug-sniffing dog to the Corporation Commission.
  • Pathologist testifies that Penny Miller's remains showed signs of burns, had been buried for years Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:07PMPenny Miller, 43, was reported missing on July 11, 2007. A preliminary examination for Austin Bradley Austin, 38, of Hartford, who is charged with one count of open murder for Miller's death, began Wednesday in Van Buren County District Court in South Haven.