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Ellis Island hospital complex to open to visitors 09/28/2014 10:44pm • COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- The crumbling old sick ward opens off a long hallway, separate from the rest of the Ellis Island hospital complex. Plaster peels from the walls. Broken porcelain light fixtures hang haphazardly above where beds once stood. The low clanging of boats and Study: Youth exercise leads to cognitive development 09/28/2014 08:27pm • WASHINGTON -- New research shows that when children exercise their bodies, they are exercising their brains as well. Scientists at the University of Illinois followed 221 7-, 8- and 9-year-olds for nine months. Half were in an after-school fitness program; the others, on a wait list. The scie Md. teen wins scouting award for restoring garden 09/28/2014 11:20am • ED WATERS Jr. The Frederick News-Post THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- A Thurmont teen has won the Girl Scout Gold Award by restoring a historic garden.Hannah Barth, 17, a student at Catoctin High School and member of Troop 81200, spent nearly 80 hours clearing the garden at the Creeger House, 11 N. Church St. Aging Boomer Generation sparks changes in Fairfax 09/28/2014 10:41am • WASHINGTON --Facing an aging baby boom generation in which residents over 70 are expected to increase nearly 90 percent by 2030, Fairfax County is trying to plan before it becomes a problem. On Tuesday Sept. 23, the county's board of supervisors adopted the 50+ Community Action Plan, which was Ebola crisis deepening 09/28/2014 06:40am • MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Officials in Ebola ravaged West Africa say the gap between what's being provided and what's needed is still huge.Six months into the world's worst Ebola outbreak, and the first to happen in an unprepared West Africa, doctors are in short supply. So are patient beds.Experts NIH to treat US doctor exposed to Ebola virus 09/28/2014 04:46am • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Institutes of Health is preparing to care for an American doctor who was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone.Out of what the agency called "an abundance of caution," the physician is expected to be admitted Toronto's mayor back in spotlight 09/27/2014 11:00pm • TORONTO (AP) -- Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has jumped back into the spotlight for the first time since being hospitalized for cancer, receiving a boisterous welcome.Supporters chanted "Rob, Rob," as he took the stage Saturday at an annual family barbeque.Ford told supporters that he loves them German nabbed in Bali for alleged drug smuggling 09/27/2014 10:12pm • BALI, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesian authorities arrested a German man for allegedly trying to smuggle 239 grams (8.4 ounces) of cocaine onto Indonesia's resort island of Bali, some of it hidden inside his stomach, an official said.Hans Peter Naumann, 48, was arrested Friday after he arrived on a flig Clues to how people bounce back from surgery 09/27/2014 06:20pm • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the big frustrations of surgery: There's little way to know if you'll be a fast or slow healer, someone who feels back to normal in a week or is out of work for a month with lingering pain and fatigue.Now Stanford University researchers ha Spain celebrates beatification of Opus Dei leader 09/27/2014 04:13pm • HAROLD HECKLE Associated Press MADRID (AP) -- The second most important figure in the Opus Dei order was beatified Saturday at an open air Mass attended by tens of thousands of Catholics that sent Alvaro Del Portillo on a key step toward sainthood and illustrated how the once secretive order has bec Guinea-Bissau: 20 dead in land mine explosion 09/27/2014 02:00pm • BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- A doctor says 20 people were killed when a minibus struck a land mine in Guinea-Bissau.Augusto Blute, a doctor based in the capital who treated several victims, said Saturday the bus was traveling between the towns of Bissora and Encheia in the north of the country when WHO: 1000s of Ebola vaccine doses in coming months 09/27/2014 11:26am • MARIA CHENG Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Thousands of doses of experimental Ebola vaccines should be available in the coming months and could eventually be given to health care workers and other people at high risk of the deadly disease, the World Health Organization said Friday.Public he Anti-addiction groups call for new FDA chief 09/27/2014 10:02am • MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anti-addiction activists are calling for the Food and Drug Administration's top official to step down, saying the agency's policies have contributed to a national epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse.In a letter released Wednesday, more than a India: Graft in health care impoverishes millions 09/27/2014 07:36am • NIRMALA GEORGE Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) -- Digamber Rawat rarely emerges from the tiny windowless room he shares with his parents because a mysterious illness has wasted away the strength in his legs. His family can't afford private health care, but they must pay for it anyway, even when they No charges in toxic tea incident at Utah eatery 09/27/2014 07:06am • BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- No charges will be filed in the case of a customer who nearly died after unknowingly drinking iced tea mixed with chemicals at a suburban Salt Lake City restaurant, prosecutors said Friday.But Dickey's Barbecue isn't off the hook just yet: Jan Ha