Roughly 900,000 tubes containing a poison have turned up in hospitals for the mentally ill, prisons, juvenile detention centers and even some hospitals.
Pregnant women with depression often find themselves choosing between the lesser of two evils. Should they take antidepressants and risk the slight but real possibility of birth defects? Or should they forgo treatment and chance a relapse?
If you're unlucky enough to have a heart attack or suffer from heart failure, knowing which hospitals in your area have the best track record for treating those conditions would be very useful information. Now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released 30-day mortality data on more than 4,500 hospitals to show whether they do better, worse, or about the same as the national average when they treat patients for those conditions.
It's almost here: the day the White House press corps moves back into the West Wing. The shift begins July 3 and the newly renovated press area officially opens on July 11 with a ribbon-cutting, with the first briefing planned for the following day.
AP - A parked car bomb exploded at rush hour Thursday in a busy bus station in southwest Baghdad, killing at least 20 people, a day after America's No. 2 diplomat in Iraq predicted progress by fall on bringing together Iraq's feuding factions.
AP - U.N. inspectors headed to North Korea's key nuclear reactor Thursday for the first time since 2002 to discuss plans to shut the plutonium-producing facility under an international accord.
AP - The Senate subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday, demanding documents and elevating the confrontation with President Bush over the administration's warrant-free eavesdropping on Americans.
In her first interview since being released from jail, Paris Hilton told CNN's Larry King on Wednesday that she has never used drugs, isn't a big drinker, and although she feels her incarceration was unwarranted, God had a reason for putting her there. "Don't serve the time; let the time serve you," Hilton said. She said she has emerged from jail determined to eliminate bad friends from her life.
With the election season and a key war progress report on the horizon, more Republicans will start to distance themselves from President Bush's policy, analysts say. Two respected senior senators this week publicly asked the president to look for a way out of Iraq. Analysts say a different surge might be in the offing -- a Republican surge for withdrawal.
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