Health News

Obama Administration Requests Stay To Lift Stem Cell Funding Ban


(Washington, DC) -- The Obama administration is requesting an emergency stay to lift the ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. In August, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled the research violated the law because it involved destroying human embryos ...Read More

Study Shows Some Dance Moves Could Attract Women


(Undated) -- A new study shows men could be waltzing their way into the heart of their leading lady. Psychologists in the study used computer generated gender-neutral figures to determine which dance moves capture a woman's heart ...Read More

Study Finds Infant's Birth Weight Impacted By Mom


(Undated) -- A new study is backing up previous research that shows a woman's weight gain during pregnancy could impact the infant's birth weight. Researchers found excessive weight gain during pregnancy consistently resulted in larger infants ...Read More

American Academy of Pediatrics Wants Mandatory Flu Shots For Health Care Workers


(Elk Grove Village, IL) -- The American Academy of Pediatrics is releasing a statement calling for mandatory flu shots for health care workers. This isn't anything new for the Academy who has already recommended it for years ...Read More

Scientists Tweak Research Methods For Melanoma Drug


(Chicago, IL) -- A biotech company says the key to a melanoma drug's success was hit on by doing two sets of biopsies. Plexxicon researchers say they took tumor samples immediately before and then two weeks after giving melanoma patients an experimental drug called PLX-4032 ...Read More
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National News

Obama Insists Economy Is Growing, Though Painfully Slow


(Parma, OH) -- President Obama insists that the national economy is growing again, though progress has been "painfully slow." In a campaign-style rally near Cleveland, Ohio, the President warned about temptations to vote "fear and anger" during November's midterm congressional elections ...Read & Hear More

California Supreme Court Refuses To Force Defense Of Prop 8


(San Francisco, CA) -- A ruling from the California Supreme Court on Wednesday was the latest in the legal battle over Proposition 8. The court refused to order the governor and state attorney general to appeal the recent ruling by a federal judge which declared Prop 8 unconstitutional ...Read More

VIDEO: GOP's Boehner Calls For Two-Year Tax Rate Freeze


(Washington, DC) -- House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio wants to see a two-year freeze on all current U.S. tax rates. That includes the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy which are due to end at the end of this year ...Read & Watch More
 
Entertainment

CNN Announces Piers Morgan Will Take Over For Larry King


(Undated) -- CNN veteran Larry King is passing the torch of his primetime show to "America's Got Talent" judge Piers Morgan in January. The cable network says the NBC talent judge will take over "Larry King Live" with a "candid, in-depth newsmaker interview program ...Read More

Barbara Walters Returns To ABC's "The View"


(Undated) -- Television legend Barbara Walters is back at work. The veteran journalist returned to her ABC talk show "The View" on Tuesday to help kick off the show's new season. Walters talked about her summer scare with heart disease and her subsequent open heart surgery ...Read & Hear More

Joe Perry: I Don't Want Aerosmith's Name Involved In "Idol"


(Undated) -- Joe Perry is speaking out as the world awaits confirmation that Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is joining the FOX hit, "American Idol." Perry told "The Calgary Herald" that he wants to keep a distance between the Boston rock band and "Idol ...Read & Hear More



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