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Obama gets Ebola update from virus response team 11/04/2014 08:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama received an update from his Ebola response team as West Africa continued to struggle against the deadly outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000 people.Obama met Tuesday at the White House with Cabinet and other officials involved in the administration's respon Mexican boy to have tumor surgery in New Mexico 11/04/2014 07:00pm • RUSSELL CONTRERAS Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- An 11-year-old Mexican boy suffering from a massive tumor, who drew international attention after U.S. Homeland Security Investigations helped him get treatment in New Mexico, is scheduled to have a series of surgeries in Albuquerque to re Anti-abortion laws blocked by Oklahoma's top court 11/04/2014 06:00pm • JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- The Oklahoma Supreme Court blocked two new laws aimed at limiting access to abortions on Tuesday, putting both on hold until lawsuits challenging their constitutionality have been settled.Both laws, approved by the Legislature earlier this y Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 11/04/2014 05:40pm • The Associated Press Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:___Oct. 24The Daily News, Bowling Green, Kentucky, on U.S. benefiting for Nazis being an outrage:Those who have committed war crimes or who are suspected of committing them must answer for them.War cr Brazil prosecutor blasts 'More Doctors' program 11/04/2014 05:30pm • Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) -- A federal prosecutors' office has alleged irregularities in the way Brazil pays Cuban doctors participating in a program set up to provide health care in remote areas, and is urging the country to pay the physicians directly rather than through their government.In Smokers more likely to have chronic back pain 11/04/2014 03:33pm • WASHINGTON -- Smokers are much more likely to experience chronic back pain. And researchers say the reason why lies deep in the brain. A team at the Northwestern University medical school followed 160 adults with new cases of back pain. They got five MRI brain scans over the course of a year, Scientists try to predict number of US Ebola cases 11/04/2014 12:12pm • MARTHA MENDOZA AP National Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -- Top medical experts studying the spread of Ebola say the public should expect more cases to emerge in the United States by year's end as infected people arrive here from West Africa, including American doctors and nurses returning from the h France takes in UNICEF worker with Ebola 11/04/2014 08:58am • PARIS (AP) -- France's government has flown in a UNICEF employee infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone for treatment.The Health Ministry says the patient was evacuated in a special flight and is undergoing treatment in "high-security isolation" in Begin Army Training Hospital in Saint-Mande, near Pari Spaceship co-pilot was experienced test pilot 11/04/2014 07:40am • BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) -- The pilot killed in a test flight of Virgin Galactic's prototype space tourism rocket was as capable behind the controls of experimental aircraft as he was tackling technical challenges in the offices where the vehicle was designed.He was also kno 100 years after WWI, poppy lives on as symbol 11/04/2014 05:00am • SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- William Sellick pinched the tiny scarlet petals with deft ease, turning them into paper poppies and pressing them into a wreath.The flowers are a potent symbol of remembrance and patriotism that sprang up in the aftermath of World War I to honor the war dea Stock market's recovery is led by drugmakers 11/04/2014 02:56am • STEVE ROTHWELL AP Markets Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- For stocks, it's just what the doctor ordered.Health care companies are leading the market's rebound from a sharp sell-off two weeks ago, helping push the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index back to record levels.The industry Suge Knight hospitalized after fall in Vegas jail 11/04/2014 01:58am • KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Rap music figure Marion "Suge" Knight will post bail and return to California to face a robbery charge following treatment at a Las Vegas hospital for a blood clot in his chest discovered after he fell in jail, his attorneys said Monday.A judge set bail Deaths of babies at Dominican hospital raise alarm 11/04/2014 12:06am • EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- Rosa Elba Santana struggles to comprehend what went tragically wrong for her infant twins at the Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital, one of the few places for someone with a sick kid and not much money in the Dominica 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Prostate Cancer 11/04/2014 12:00am • When you're diagnosed with prostate cancer, be proactive.Prostate cancer is somewhat unique in the cancer world: More men die with it than from it. The cancer is pervasive, but for most men, not deadly. Knowing where you stand in the spectrum of the disease is important to understanding how you'll n The 7-minute workout: a personal trainer in your pocket 11/04/2014 12:00am • We are a nation that loves a bargain. We tend to get a boost from getting more for less, more bang for our buck. In my work with busy professionals, not to mention in my own life, I know that time is at a premium and we crave convenience. When asked why my clients don't exercise on a regular basi