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Flesh-eating bug victim gets bionic hands
Flesh-eating bacteria amputee Aimee Copeland now uses the latest technology in prosthetic hands to chop vegetables, pick up tiny items like Skittles, and comb and iron press her hair.
Categories: National News
Oxbow wins Preakness Stakes
Bikini contest and an exuberant infield party aside, the buzz before Saturday's Preakness Stakes was heavily favored Orb's bid for the Triple Crown.
Categories: National News
Car plows into parade-goers in Virginia
As many as 50 people were injured Saturday afternoon after a car plowed into parade-goers in Damascus, Virginia, a police dispatcher told CNN.
Categories: National News
New York slaying considered hate crime
Police are investigating the slaying of a 32-year-old man in the Greenwich Village neighborhood early Saturday as a hate crime because the gunman made multiple anti-gay comments, they said.
Categories: National News
Planes lands without landing gear at Newark
A U.S. Airways plane touched down without landing gear at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey early Saturday morning.
Categories: National News
Workers sickened by new virus
Two health care workers in Saudi Arabia were sickened while treating patients with a dangerous new virus, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
Categories: Health
Trust your memory? Maybe you shouldn't
You probably feel pretty attached to your memories -- they're yours after all. But one conversation with Elizabeth Loftus may shake your confidence about everything you think you remember.
Categories: Health
Cloning stem cells: What does it mean?
Earlier this week we saw a breakthrough in this field: A group of researchers published in the journal Cell proof that they had created embryonic stem cells through cloning.
Categories: Health
Her vision: Better, clearer sight
Categories: Health
'Lose weight or die' prompts 130-lb loss
After his gastric bypass surgery, Dale Benzine's life changed drastically. It wasn't easy, he says, but it was definitely worth it.
Categories: Health
Fighting for gene monopoly
Angelina Jolie's news of a preventative double mastectomy brings a company, and a test into the limelight.
Categories: Health
Triathlete conquers first time in the ocean
Being outside of her comfort zone has helped Rae Timme conquer her fears and self-doubt as she trains for her first triathlon.
Categories: Health
5 things to know about dangerous, SARS-like virus
A new virus in the same family as SARS -- found for the first time in humans in recent months -- has infected 40 people, most of them in the Middle East.
Categories: Health
Yuck! What's in your pool water
Chlorine is supposed to take care of most of the microbes floating around in pools, but human waste, it seems, is stubbornly resistant to being sanitized.
Categories: Health
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