May 21, 2013

Weather

Thunderstorm Light Rain

59°
Feels Like: 56 °
Conditions at North Texas Regional Airport, TX
Save Email Print Bookmark and Share
A A

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Thousands of women die from breast cancer but their are new methods of testing for prevention.


WebMD Health News

AP Top Health Stories

  • Report: NPS hantavirus response followed policy
    YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommended on Monday that design changes to tent cabins and other privately run lodging first be reviewed by National Park Service officials.
  • Tunisia announces 3 cases of coronavirus, 1 death
    RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A 66-year-old Tunisian man has died from the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia and two of his adult children were infected with it, the Tunisian Health Ministry reported.
  • Sports seem OK for many with heart-zapping device

    FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2012, file photo, Utah State basketball player Danny Berger holds a defibrillator, like the one implanted in his chest, following a news conference at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah. New research is challenging medical guidelines that say people with a heart-zapping device in their chests should avoid intense sports like basketball and soccer in favor of golf or bowling. Increasingly, teenagers and younger adults receive these implants, people who may be more active and fit but have some underlying heart abnormality that puts them at risk of an arrhythmia. Last year, Utah State forward Danny Berger collapsed on the basketball court, was revived and had a defibrillator implanted; he has said he hopes to play again. (AP Photo/Deseret News, Ravell Call, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — New research is challenging medical guidelines that say people with a heart-zapping device in their chests should avoid intense sports like basketball and soccer in favor of golf or bowling.


  • Appeals court strikes down Arizona ban on abortions at 20 weeks
    By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - A federal appeals court struck down an Arizona law on Tuesday that bans abortions from 20 weeks gestation, saying it violated "unalterably clear" U.S. Supreme Court rulings that women have a right to terminate pregnancies until a fetus is viable. The decision by a three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals in San Francisco, which overturned the ruling of a federal district court judge, was hailed by abortion rights groups as a "huge victory" in a state they say has taken one of the nation's toughest stances on the issue. ...
  • Joplin Survivor Tells OK Parents: 'Have to Try to Be Strong'
    Survivor of the 2011 Joplin, Mo., tornado relives the loss of two grandchildren, 6 and 10, who were ripped from their mother's arms while the family huddled for safety in a bathtub. She tells those separated from their children in Moore, Okl., to turn to counseling and God.