Counter-terrorism chemical labs test for synthetic pot The drug has sent hundreds of users to hospitals. Testing for it is the latest way a multibillion-dollar national infrastructure built to respond to biological attacks has adapted to the lack of an actual attack.
When Jeffery H. Moran goes to work each day, he swipes his security badge, passes into an airtight chamber, opens a bombproof door and enters a lab full of deadly toxins.
As Brenda Mulberry stepped into the natural-food grocery in Cocoa Beach this week, she paused to tick off elements of her shopping list for a candidate in Tuesday's Florida primary. Electability was at the top, and for that reason she's backing Mitt Romney.
Smuggling brings down Texas deer breeders Billy Powell and his grandson are fined and temporarily banned from breeding after sneaking in out-of-state deer, a scandal that has rocked Texas' $2.8-billion deer hunting and breeding industry.
Texas' hunting season for white-tailed deer draws to a close this month. Normally Billy Powell would be counting his profits from catering to "hornographers," hunters who will pay as much as $100,000 to bag a monster buck with impressive headgear.
HPV study finds 7% of U.S. teens, adults carry virus in mouths
 <br/><br/>A new study showing an estimated 7 percent of American teens and adults carry the human papillomavirus in their mouths may help health experts finally understand why rates of mouth and throat cancer have been climbing for nearly 25 years. Oral s...
Couple decide to implant frozen embryos
 <br/><br/>Grateful for the in vitro fertilization that enabled a couple to become parents, one believed donating the extra embryos to advance reproductive technology or treat debilitating diseases would be best. The other imagined more kids or donating th...
OB-GYNs, neurologists call for domestic violence screening
 <br/><br/>The confirmed high rates of domestic abuse — or interpersonal violence — led two major physicians' groups to call for routine screening of patients for signs of abuse.
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Robotic technology to treat lung cancer
 <br/><br/>The da Vinci robotic technology allows doctors to perform more precise surgeries. The technique also enables patients to recover more quickly with fewer complications in many cases. Dr. Gavin Henry uses it over traditional lobectomy surgery to t...