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CDC: Fecal Bacteria Common in Swimming Pools

CDC: Fecal Bacteria Common in Swimming Pools

Health officials say they found fecal bacteria in more than half of the water samples taken from Atlanta-area public swimming pools last summer. And they say contaminated water leading to disease outbreaks is becoming common nationwide. (Ma...

Wash. State Releases Draft Rules for Legal Pot

Wash. State Releases Draft Rules for Legal Pot

Officials in Washington state took their first stab at setting rules for the state's new marijuana industry Thursday, nearly eight months after voters here legalized pot for adults. (May 17)

Music Therapy Bonds Parents and Preemies

Music Therapy Bonds Parents and Preemies

Music therapy using soft sounds and gentle rhythms may help preemies relax, grow and even go home from the hospital sooner. Music can even bond parents and their frail newborns during those difficult days in intensive care. (May 16)

Pa. Abortion Doctor Gets Third Life Sentence

Pa. Abortion Doctor Gets Third Life Sentence

Jurors who convicted a Philadelphia abortion doctor of murder say he perhaps started out with good intentions but got greedy and lost his way. (May 15)

A Doctor Who Really Knows Her Specialty

A Doctor Who Really Knows Her Specialty

When Dr. Jan Brunstrom-Hernandez was born prematurely and diagnosed with cerebral palsy, doctors told her parents she had a zero chance of survival. She survived, thrived, and now treats cerebral palsy patients in St. Louis. (May 15)

A Doctor Who Really Knows Her Specialty

A Doctor Who Really Knows Her Specialty

When Dr. Jan Brunstrom-Hernandez was born prematurely and diagnosed with cerebral palsy, doctors told her parents she had a zero chance of survival. She survived, thrived, and now treats cerebral palsy patients in St. Louis. (May 15)

Jolie Genetic Cancer Risk High but Rare

Jolie Genetic Cancer Risk High but Rare

Angelina Jolie says she wants to help other women by discussing her double mastectomy and genetic predisposition for breast and ovarian cancer. While the actress's genetic cancer risk was very high, it's also fairly rare. (May 14)

Jolie Has Double Mastectomy

Jolie Has Double Mastectomy

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie reveals that she's had a double mastectomy, in a written article, after discovering she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she'd get breast cancer. (May 14)

New Options for Breast Cancer Surgery

New Options for Breast Cancer Surgery

Women with breast cancer now have more surgical options to treat their disease and save more of their breast. New techniques are faster, gentler and less disfiguring. (May 14)

A "walking" prescription to promote fitness

Your doctor's assistant can now write you a prescription to walk here in Georgia.   In an unusual collaboration the Georgia Association of Physicians Assistants and Georgia State Parks are trying to promote fitness in the great outdoors.  It's usually five dollars to park your vehicle at Georgia state parks but, with the ...

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