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When Your Diagnosis Is Osteoporosis 10/29/2014 12:00am • When she turned 50 eight years ago, Sharan Christ of Littleton, Colorado, had a bone scan during a routine physical. Feeling perfectly healthy, she was "absolutely floored" and "devastated" to learn she had osteoporosis -- the silent disease that leaves bones thin, brittle and weak. Pat Burkey of The Great Potato Debate: Healthy or Not? 10/29/2014 12:00am • When Jeff Nimoy "cheats" on his paleo diet, he almost always goes for pizza or a cheeseburger -- with a side of French fries. But most days of the week, "I'm definitely anti-potato," says the 48-year-old Los Angeles writer, who blogs about his food choices at CookingCaveman.com. Nimoy is in good co Marvel unveils slate of films through 2019 10/28/2014 11:02pm • DERRIK J. LANG AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Doctor Strange," ''Black Panther," ''Captain Marvel" and the "Inhumans" are joining the Marvel cinematic universe.The studio unveiled the titles and release dates of its upcoming superhero films through 2019 during a Tuesday event in Hollyw Maine prepared to enforce 'voluntary' quarantine 10/28/2014 10:02pm • ROBERT F. BUKATY Associated Press FORT KENT, Maine (AP) -- Health officials said Tuesday they're prepared to legally enforce the state's "voluntary" quarantine on health care workers who've treated Ebola patients.Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew declined during a news Correction: Colon Cancer Test story 10/28/2014 09:50pm • The Associated Press In a story Oct. 26 about Cologuard, a new DNA test for colon cancer screening, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the test was approved in September and was not yet available nationwide. The test was approved in August and has been available through the Cologuard we Cyanide searches found on poison suspect's laptop 10/28/2014 09:10pm • JOE MANDAK Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A medical researcher charged with poisoning his wife had a computer on which someone conducted searches relating to cyanide poisoning two or three days after she died, a state police computer expert testified Tuesday.The searches found on 66-year-old Dr CDC: New restrictions for those at high Ebola risk 10/28/2014 08:30pm • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. health officials are recommending that people who are at highest risk for coming down with Ebola avoid commercial travel or attending large public gatherings, even if they have no symptoms.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the u Penn State safety Ryan Keiser has bowel injury 10/28/2014 07:21pm • JIM CARLSON Associated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Penn State safety Ryan Keiser was recovering in a hospital on Tuesday after having surgery to repair a bowel injury suffered when he fractured a rib in practice last week.Nittany Lions coach James Franklin said Tuesday that Keiser's condition w Redskins have 'pulse'; RG3 close to returning 10/28/2014 05:57pm • JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The magnitude of Jay Gruden's first big win as the Washington Redskins coach is nearly impossible to gauge.His team was down to its third quarterback and was being mocked nationwide. A prime-time visit to its first-place division rival would only vali Fairfax health director speaks out on Ebola 10/28/2014 04:26pm • Gloria Addo-Ayensu, Director of Health for the Fairfax County Health Department says that the county, particularly in the wake of a scare at Inova Fairfax Hospital earlier this month, is keeping apprised daily with recommendations on controlling the deadly disease. A woman who vomited Mali rushes to track Ebola after toddler dies 10/28/2014 03:52pm • BABA AHMED Associated Press KAYES, Mali (AP) -- After 2-year-old Fanta Kone's father died in southern Guinea, the toddler's grandmother took her from the forested hills where the Ebola outbreak first began months ago to bring her home to Mali. It wasn't long, though, before the little girl started g Poor health systems in Asia cause for Ebola alarm 10/28/2014 03:26pm • CHRIS BRUMMITT Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) -- The longer the Ebola outbreak rages in West Africa, the greater chance a traveler infected with the virus touches down in an Asian city.How quickly any case is detected -- and the measures taken once it is -- will determine whether the virus takes ho Toronto elects a new mayor, ends Ford era 10/28/2014 02:44pm • ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) -- Toronto's next mayor will be a straight-laced, button down moderate conservative -- almost the polar opposite of current Mayor Rob Ford, whose term was plagued by scandals involving public drinking and illegal drug use.John Tory won Monday's election with US governors, Army go own way on Ebola quarantines 10/28/2014 01:57pm • COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday recommended new restrictions for people at highest risk for coming down with the Ebola virus and symptom monitoring for those at lower risk, but some state governors and even the Army Ga. hospital: Nurse who had Ebola to be released 10/28/2014 11:39am • ATLANTA (AP) -- An Emory University Hospital spokeswoman says a 29-year-old Dallas nurse who was treated for Ebola will be released.Emory spokeswoman Holly Korschun tells The Associated Press that Amber Vinson will be leaving the hospital after a 1 p.m. news conference Tuesday to make a statement af