AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton used an appearance at one of the nation's largest evangelical churches Thursday to sketch a broad agenda to take on disease around the globe, calling it "the right thing to do."
AP - When Frank Moran shot a mule deer during a hunting trip in Montana, there was no question what he would do with the venison. Moran took the deer to a meat processor, paid $70 for butchering and returned home to Sacramento, Calif. When the venison had been ground and wrapped, it went into a freezer at the Gallatin Valley Food Bank in Bozeman.
AP - Ivonne Borrero liked that her son's teacher was pushing him to do good work. She just didn't like the rewards: The pizza parties and Burger King coupons weren't helping 11-year-old Jose's waistline.
AP - Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be listed as a "probable" cause of cancer. It is a surprising step validating a concept once considered wacky. And it is based on research that finds higher rates of breast and prostate cancer among women and men whose work day starts after dark.
AP - Doctors didn't know cigarettes were bad and thought high blood pressure could sometimes be good when homemaker Helen Vaughn was lured by a 1948 newspaper ad to join one of history's most important medical studies.
AP - As many as one in three U.S. children have been ridiculed or threatened through computer messages, according to one estimate of the emerging problem of cyberbullying.
AP - Health activists said Tuesday that powerful tobacco industry groups could scuttle a federal government decision to require photographs of cancer patients on cigarette packs sold in India by next month. Several other countries have tried similar strategies to discourage smoking.
AP - Tests of hundreds of airline passengers show that no one caught tuberculosis while flying earlier this year with an infected man who caused an international health scare when he flew to Europe for his wedding.
AP - A widely used tool for predicting a woman's risk of breast cancer is getting an update to better reflect black women's risk. At issue is the National Cancer Institute's online risk calculator. Answer a few questions such as current age, age when your first child was born, family history of breast cancer and learn your odds of getting breast cancer in the next five years.
AP - The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., which has been under intense pressure from anti-smoking groups and members of Congress over print ads for its cigarettes, said Tuesday it would not advertise its brands in newspapers or consumer magazines next year.
