Every year sinus infections afflict about 37 million Americans, sending many of them to the doctor for relief. The problem, according to a new study, is that the prescribed relief may not be appropriate; despite the fact that most acute infections are caused by a virus, patients are overwhelmingly getting bacteria-killing antibiotics.
GOP congressional leadership officials on Monday were planning a joint defensive effort this week on moves by the Democrats to take down Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and to approve a budget that ends President Bush's tax cuts.
AP - The former deputy in Saddam Hussein's government was hanged before dawn Tuesday for the killings of 148 Shiites, an official with the prime minister's office said.
AP - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' hold on his job grew more uncertain Monday as the Justice Department released e-mails with new details about the firings of federal prosecutors. The White House said it hoped Gonzales would survive the tumult.
AP - The Iraq war lumbered into its fifth year Monday with President Bush pleading for patience to let his revised battle plan work and Congress' new Democratic leaders retorting that no patience remains.
The multimillion-dollar effort to eradicate one of the world's deadliest diseases receives a significant but controversial boost with the creation of genetically modified mosquitoes that cannot pass on malaria.
Former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was hanged at dawn Tuesday, according to a source close to Iraq's High Tribunal. Ramadan was Saddam Hussein's vice president when the regime was ousted in 2003. The court sentenced Ramadan to death by hanging for his role in the killing of 148 men and boys in Dujail, Iraq, after a failed assassination attempt on Hussein.
The Department of Justice Monday delivered to Congress more than 3,000 pages of e-mails and other documentation regarding the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year.
All-terrain vehicles, five canine teams and helicopters equipped with infrared devices have joined the search for a 12-year-old Boy Scout who disappeared two days ago. Michael Auberry went missing Saturday during a camping trip with his Boy Scout troop at Doughton Park, along the Blue Ridge Parkway near the Virginia state line. Teams combed the rugged terrain in freezing temperatures overnight.