Home - German doctors apologize for Nazi-era crimes
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's medical association has adopted a declaration apologizing for sadistic experiments and other actions of doctors under the Nazis.
- Pool access for the disabled sparks controversy
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the disabled.
P&G to add latches to make detergent packs safer
DALLAS (AP) — The maker of Tide Pods will create a new double-latch lid to deter children from accessing and eating the brightly colored detergent packets, a company spokesman said Friday.
Missouri opts for untested drug for executions
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The same anesthetic that caused the overdose death of pop star Michael Jackson is now the drug of choice for executions in Missouri, causing a stir among critics who question how the state can guarantee a drug untested for lethal injection won't cause pain and suffering for the condemned.
Man says Ore. psychiatrist told him he wasn't gay
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Max Hirsh says he sensed something wasn't quite right when the psychiatrist focused on his failures with sports and teenage girls, as well as his deficient relationships with older men, particularly his father.
- Report: State tobacco prevention funding lacking
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — States have spent only about 3 percent of the billions they've received in tobacco taxes and legal settlements over the last decade to fund tobacco prevention programs, making it harder to reduce the death and disease caused by tobacco use, according to a report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A smoke-free country? New Zealand taxes aim for it
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — There are smoke-free bars, smoke-free parks, even smoke-free college campuses. But a smoke-free country?
Food stamp fraud raising concerns in gov't offices
WASHINGTON (AP) — Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash — sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist — and then asking the government for replacement cards.
- UN: Fukushima workers' deaths not from radiation
VIENNA (AP) — A year after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima disaster, a United Nations agency preparing a report on the health effects says none of the six former reactor workers who have died since the catastrophe perished due to the effects of radiation.
Born to run barefoot? Some end up getting injured
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Swept by the barefoot running craze, ultramarathoner Ryan Carter ditched his sneakers for footwear that mimics the experience of striding unshod.
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