Happy Halloween? Only If Kids Are Safe
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(CBS) What's the secret of a happy Halloween? Good friends? A creepy costume? Neighbors who dole out just the right kind of candy?
How about a refresher course in pedestrian safety?
Continue »Doctor Convicted in Anna Nicole Smith Case
Anna Nicole Smith at an event in Las Vegas on September 15, 2004. (Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)
(CBS/AP) Were the drugs that killed Anna Nicole Smith gotten with the help of angels of mercy - or star-struck connivers?
A Los Angeles jury weighing drug-related charges against doctors and associates of the late Playboy model issued mixed verdicts on Thursday, absolving the deceased model's doctor of prescribing excessive drugs for her but convicting her boyfriend and a psychiatrist of conspiring to fake names on prescriptions.
Continue »Jose Guillen Linked to Drugs Investigation
Jose Guillen of the San Francisco Giants during a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on September 6, 2010 in Phoenix. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
(CBS/AP) Another doping scandal may be brewing in Major League Baseball.
Jose Guillen, an outfielder with the San Francisco Giants, has been linked to a federal investigation into shipments of performance-enhancing drugs, The New York Times reported.
Continue »1,000 Genomes Project Goes Beyond Your DNA
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(CBS) Remember the race to map the human genome? Science crossed that finish line in 2003. But it turns out that was just the beginning.
Scientists are now focusing on the small differences in our genomes, hoping to find fresh clues to the origins of many diseases.
Continue »BPA Makes Sperm Less Spunky: Study
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(CBS/AP) Does exposure to bisphenol-A (BPA) make sperm less spunky?
A new study shows that men exposed to high levels of the controversial chemical - which is found in many plastics - had low sperm counts and decreased sperm motility.
Pancreatic Cancer Tumors May Take Years to Kill
Patrick Swayze, shown here in 2006, died from pancreatic cancer in 2009. (MJ Kim/Getty Images)
(CBS) Pancreatic cancer is a disease with few survivors - less than five percent after five years.
So it's long been thought of as a quick killer, but new research suggests just the opposite and gives hope to the idea that earlier diagnosis could alter outcomes for patients.
Continue »NFL Cheerleaders Push Breast Cancer Awareness
Baltimore Ravens cheerleaders shake it during a game against the Denver Broncos October 10, 2010 in Baltimore. (Larry French/Getty Images)
(CBS) If awareness of breast cancer hasn't risen over the past month, maybe Americans just haven't been watching enough football.
PICTURES: NFL Cheerleaders, Players Fight Breast Cancer
Marie Claire: "Should Fatties Get a Room?"
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(CBS) We don't know how many obese people regularly read Marie Claire author Maura Kelly, but they seem to be paying attention now.
On Tuesday, Kelly opined on whether it was unseemly to show morbidly obese characters making out on television.
"I'd be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other," she wrote. "Because I'd be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything. To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room -- just like I'd find it distressing if I saw a very drunk person stumbling across a bar or a heroine addict slumping in a chair."
Ouch.
Continue »Americans Bigger but Blood Pressure in Check
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ATLANTA (CBS/AP) We eat too much salt, we eat too much fat and we don't exercise as much as we should, but according to a new government report our blood pressure is holding steady.
Continue »Charlie Sheen: Drug Allergy - Or Drug Abuse?
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(CBS/AP) So much for rehab. After repeated stints in substance abuse and anger-management programs, actor Charlie Sheen broke furniture, damaged a chandelier, and otherwise trashed his suite at New York's Plaza Hotel early Tuesday morning, police say.
His publicist blamed the incident on an allergic reaction to medication. But he was naked, drunk, high on coke, and accompanied by a prostitute, the New York Post reported.
Continue »FDA Asked Four Loko to Prove Drink Was Safe
Four Loko and other caffeinated alcoholic drinks under FDA scrutiny. (CBS)
(CBS) After nearly a dozen party-going students were hospitalized in Washington state and authorities put some of the blame on a drink that mixes alcohol with caffeine, a popular version of the beverage called Four Loko has taken a lot of heat. But its not the only drink that's under scrutiny.
Late last year, at the urging of a group of state attorneys general, the FDA sent letters to nearly 30 manufacturers responsible for more than 40 alcoholic energy drinks asking for proof that their products are safe.
Haiti Cholera Cases Haven't Peaked: Official
Cholera patient Jacklin Anore, 24, lies in bed at the Cuban-run Nicolas Armand hospital in Arcahaie, north of Port-au-Prince, on October 26, 2010. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
(CBS/AP) Cholera is spreading misery and death across Haiti.
The death toll in the impoverished nation has reached 284, and UN officials reported 3,769 new cases of the deadly diarrheal illness as of Tuesday.
Continue »Can Barbers Be Lifesavers?
Characters in the 2002 movie "Barbershop" like to hang out at a neighborhood barbershop. (Tracy Bennett/Metro Goldwyn Mayer)
(CBS) Shave and a haircut and a blood pressure reading? It seems to be a good combination for black men with hypertension, a.k.a. high blood pressure.
Uncontrolled hypertension is a major cause of early death among black men, and a new study suggests that barbers trained to check their customers' blood pressure can help hypertensive men take control of the disease.
Continue »Cholera Outbreak Easing in Haiti
A woman said to have cholera symptoms washes a baby in her tent in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 25, 2010. (THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images)
(CBS/AP) The cholera outbreak in Haiti showed signs of easing Monday after killing more than 250 people in a sweep through rural areas. Still, experts warned that the earthquake-devastated country's first bout with the disease in decades is far from over.
After Students Sickened, Four Loko Defends Drink
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ELLENSBURG, Wash. (CBS/AP) Can mixing alcohol and caffeine really make you sick?
That's the question many are asking after nearly a dozen Central Washington University students became ill at an off-campus party this month. At first a date-rape drug was blamed, but the real culprit, officials now say, was a popular drink called Four Loko, which mixes high doses of alcohol and caffeine.
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