MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A racially charged Democratic primary campaign ended Thursday with an incumbent congressman trouncing the opponent who ran an ad linking him to the Ku Klux Klan.
Early, unofficial results showed Democrat Steve Cohen with 79 percent of the vote to 19 percent for Nikki Tinker, a black corporate lawyer who was his chief opponent in the district that covers Memphi...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Federal labor officials have cited a Buffalo-area ice cream plant for 22 serious health and safety violations.
Fieldbrook Foods Corporation of Dunkirk faces $90,500 in proposed fines. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says the facility has incomplete or inadequate safeguards for its refrigeration system, among other hazards.
OSHA also found other...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - When a doctor doesn't look an Asian-American patient in the eye, that might be seen as a sign of respect. But making eye contact is encouraged with black patients, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, which has published a guidebook for culturally competent care.
As the country's ethnic profile diversifies, some states are trying to assure that ...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has just recommended that physicians not use the PSA test that could identify potential prostate cancer in older men. The study group concluded that in men 75 or older with undetected, slow-growing prostate cancer, treatment is a greater health threat than the cancer itself.
The conclusion - much like the discussion of different prostate cancer trea...
Stocks headed for a higher open Friday, a day after a sharppullback, as oil prices declined and investors awaited a governmentreading on worker productivity.
Light, sweet crude fell $2.09 to $117.93 in premarket electronictrading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. A rise in oil Thursdaydisappointed investors who are eager to see any easing of inflationpressures.
Wall Street will a...
EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Aug. 8, 2008) - Liberty Mines Inc. (TSX:LBE) ("Liberty or the Corporation") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Mark Trevisiol BSc. P. Eng as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer effective September 2, 2008. He will also join the Board of Directors, effective today.
Mr. Trevisiol is a Professional Engineer with over 20 years of management, ...
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — Being linked to "big oil" turned into a big problem for Tennessee Republican freshman Rep. David Davis, who became the first congressman from that state to lose in a primary in more than four decades.
Johnson City Mayor Phil Roe beat Davis by a 500-vote margin Thursday in the solidly Republican 1st District in the northeastern corner of the state.
R...
When Dan Hackett started college, he didn't make the grades he knew he could.
Hackett, who has Asperger's syndrome, found at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh that some of his symptoms were holding him back. He had difficulty organizing his time and managing assignments.
His parents tried to help, but he wasn't comfortable with them intervening at college. H...
MEDAN, Indonesia (AFP) — Hundreds of chickens and ducks have been slaughtered to contain a suspected bird flu outbreak in Indonesia as 13 people with flu-like symptoms await laboratory results, officials said Friday.
Experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) had arrived in the affected village in North Sumatra to help investigate the possible outbreak and the sudden death of...
As with any product used to excess, consumers often wonder about the health consequences. And researchers readily oblige. Hardly a month goes by without a report that hails coffee, tea or caffeine as healthful or damns them as potential killers.
Can all these often contradictory reports be right? Yes. Coffee and tea, after all, are complex mixtures of chemicals, several of which may indep...
ATLANTA (AP) — Could the AIDS virus be stopped with gift cards? Desperate for a way to stop the escalating spread of HIV among young gay men, public health officials are looking to novel strategies, such as enlisting local gay opinion leaders to urge their peers to practice safe sex.
Promising signs from such a project in North Carolina led the Centers for Disease Control and Preve...
FREDERICTON — A New Brunswick court has cleared the way for Dr. Henry Morgentaler to challenge restrictions on abortion funding in the province.
Court of Queen's Bench Judge Paulette Garnett has granted Morgentaler "public interest standing" to represent women in his lawsuit against the province.
Morgentaler, 85, is trying to force the New Brunswick government to pay for abo...
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Books Frugal fun to finish summer Hispanics gain ground, according to new census figures Olympic orchestra members keep plugging despite sticky heat, long practices Store run turned tragic for Westley woman, son Police shoot, kill man who stomped baby to deathGang members apologize after stabbing wrong man in Modesto4 women file l...Warao Indian women grieve over the body of Elbia Rivas, who died from an unidentified illness August 3.
Laboratory investigations have yet to confirm the cause, but the symptoms point to rabies, according to two researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and other medical experts.
The two UC Berkeley researchers -- the husband-and-wife team of anthropologist Charles B...