The FDA has approved a new drug called Revlimid to treat a type of the rare blood disorder, myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), which can progress to become leukemia. Revlimid treats a type of MDS involving a certain genetic abnormality. Revlimid structurally resembles another drug, thalidomide, which is known to cause severe …
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NEW ORLEANS – A husband and wife who waited three months to see what Hurricane Katrina did to their neighborhood finally returned Thursday to find their blue, wood-frame house sitting in the front yard, three feet off its foundation. Louis Phillips and Donna Williams were among those allowed access to …
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Here’s what is on tap for Wednesday: “FOX & Friends First” Starts at 6 a.m. ET Some special pieces of baseball’s rich history are about to go on sale. How can you get your hands on them? Larry Davis, vice president of Steiner Sports Marketing, explains what’s up for auction …
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NEW ORLEANS – Authorities investigating whether hospital and nursing home patients were put out of their misery during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath are testing as many as 100 of the dead for lethal doses of morphine or other such drugs. Orleans Parish coroner Frank Minyard said Friday that samples …
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WASHINGTON – Lighting up the chilly night with a resolute flick of a switch, House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Thursday night illuminated this year’s Capitol Christmas — not “holiday” — Tree, reinstating its religious title for the first time in years. Known as the Capitol Holiday Tree since the 1990s, …
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WASHINGTON – Police are investigating a loaded assault weapon found in a parking lot a block from the Supreme Court, a law enforcement official said Friday. Supreme Court police discovered the gun on Dec. 2 in the lot in the residential Capitol Hill neighborhood east of the court and turned …
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One of the more egregious anti-Christmas examples in the war on Christmas is the school district in Plano, Texas, which banned the colors red and green last year. I say this all the time in promoting my book, “The War on Christmas.” I did a chapter on the Plano situation …
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland – A Swiss hospital has agreed to let assisted-suicide organization help terminally ill patients take their own lives on its premises. A spokesman for the Vaud University Hospital Center confirmed reports in Swiss newspapers Saturday that, starting in January, it would let the Exit society assist in the …
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TEL AVIV, Israel – Israel’s battered Likud Party chose Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to run against Ariel Sharon in March elections, and the former Israeli prime minister pledged to bring the party back to power. Exit polls from all three Israeli TV stations showed Netanyahu with 47 percent of the …
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BEIJING – Chinese police have closed 598 Web sites in a crackdown on pornography, but online gambling and fraud are growing, state media said Friday. The latest crackdown, launched in March, led to 25 arrests, the China Daily Newspaper said, citing figures from the Ministry of Public Security. That figure …
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