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An undercover drug investigation on and around the Ohio State University campus has led to charges against 16 people, including some students, and to the seizure of drugs ranging from cocaine to Ecstasy, authorities said yesterday. Detectives with the...

Tremayne Carroll took the stand Thursday and denied that he sexually assaulted his stepdaughter. Then, while still on the stand, he accused the SBI lab of tampering with evidence, the Randolph County Sheriff's Office of racial bias, the District...

A proposal to make hospital bills more transparent and easy to understand sprinted through a Senate committee Wednesday with bipartisan support. The Republicans pushing the bill added several suggestions from Attorney General Roy Cooper, a Democrat....

To counter the now-well-publicized culture of rape in India, three engineers in Chennai said in March that they are about to send to the market women's anti-rape lingerie, which will provide both a stun-gun-sized blast of electricity against an...

Avera St. Luke's Hospital plans to build an $11 million cancer center at least five times as big as its current cancer facility.  The center would allow Avera to offer expanded services, help attract cancer specialists to the area and solidify Aberdeen'...

SEATTLE (AP) — Mike Steenhout knows spreadsheets, statistics and bean-counting. He has worked as a budget assistant to the governor, managed local operations for the U.S. Census Bureau and analyzed juvenile crime databases. Now, the married,...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors order fewer laboratory tests during a patient's hospital stay if they know how much the tests cost, according to a new study. Researchers found that doctors at one U.S. hospital ordered about 9 percent fewer lab...

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man charged with mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders was surprised by his arrest and maintains he is innocent, his attorney said Thursday after his first appearance. Paul Kevin Curtis, 45,...

CORINTH, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market and claimed "various parties within the government"...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two thirds of women in a new U.S. study reported regularly using cleansers, lubricants or petroleum jelly intravaginally - and some of the products were linked to a higher chance of common vaginal infections. Those mundane...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - U.S. researchers found better levels of "good cholesterol" and other markers of heart health in the blood of middle-aged study subjects with a sunny outlook on life. At least some of the connection between optimism and blood...

SACRAMENTO -- A series of bills to expand the roles of nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals has set off a turf war with doctors over what non-physicians can and can’t do in medical practices. Citing a doctor shortage in...