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Virus drugmaker fights pediatricians' new advice 07/30/2014 04:48pm • LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- A costly drug given mostly to premature babies is at the center of a clash between the manufacturer and the nation's leading pediatrician's group, which recommends scaling back use of the medicine.The dispute involves new guidelines from the American Virginia swimmer fights bacteria eating away at his leg 07/30/2014 01:53pm • WASHINGTON -- Doctors say a Stafford, Virginia man will be able to keep his leg after contracting dangerous bacteria while swimming in the Potomac River. For the Fourth of July holiday, Joe Wood and his wife Jeana visited family near Callao, Virginia and swam in a Potomac River inlet. "We were US appeals court blocks Mississippi abortion law 07/30/2014 01:50pm • EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi's governor and attorney general will have to decide whether to challenge a federal appeals court ruling that is keeping the state's only abortion clinic in business.A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 Tue Column: NCAA may not be bumbling idiots after all 07/30/2014 01:46pm • TIM DAHLBERG AP Sports Columnist Two down, one big one to go.And with it a growing realization that maybe the people running the NCAA aren't the bumbling idiots everyone has been making them out to be.The NCAA's agreement Tuesday to create a $70 million fund to diagnose concussions and brain injurie PMC bicycle ride for cancer research hits 35 years 07/30/2014 10:02am • JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer NEEDHAM, Mass. (AP) -- Billy Starr was living at his father's house -- sometimes in a tent in the backyard -- in need of another adventure after hiking part of the Appalachian Trail, when he decided to ride his bicycle to the very tip of Cape Cod.A two-sport varsity athl Zola: Creating a single gift registry for multiple sites and stores 07/30/2014 07:48am • Data Doctors Brewers All-Star prospect worries for ill son 07/30/2014 05:20am • GENARO C. ARMAS AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) -- One of the Milwaukee Brewers' top prospects is balancing an All-Star season while worrying for his seriously ill son.Class-A pitcher Jorge Lopez's son, Mikael, is waiting for an intestinal transplant. The 13 month-old boy who has been sick since bir US appeals court blocks Mississippi abortion law 07/30/2014 04:36am • EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi's effort to close its last abortion clinic was overturned in federal appellate court on Tuesday. Advocates for the law said women with unwanted pregnancies could always travel to other states, but the judges said every state mu Officials: Little risk of Ebola outbreak in US 07/30/2014 03:22am • NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. health officials are monitoring the Ebola outbreak in Africa but say the risk of the deadly germ spreading to the United States is remote.The Centers for Disease Control on Monday sent a health alert to U.S. doctors about the outbreak. There are no travel restrictions to the We Senate confirms McDonald as VA secretary 07/30/2014 03:16am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed former Procter & Gamble CEO Robert McDonald as the new Veterans Affairs secretary, with a mission to overhaul an agency beleaguered by long veterans' waits for health care and VA workers falsifying records t UConn makes 3-D copies of antique instrument parts 07/29/2014 11:40pm • PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press STORRS, Conn. (AP) -- Researchers at the University of Connecticut are using medical technology to breathe new life into some antique musical instruments.Dr. Robert Howe, a reproductive endocrinologist in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, says his medical practice showe Motion filed to dismiss penis amputation suit 07/29/2014 11:10pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- An attorney for two Alabama doctors accused in a lawsuit of amputating a man's penis in what was supposed to have been a routine circumcision filed a motion Tuesday seeking to dismiss the claims.Attorney Mike Florie says his clients, Dr. Michael Bivins and Dr. Alan Aikens, n Texas regents pick McRaven as chancellor finalist 07/29/2014 09:52pm • JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- University of Texas System regents on Tuesday selected one of the top U.S. military special operations leaders as the lone finalist for the job of chancellor, overseeing the system's 15 campuses and $14 billion budget.Navy Adm. William McRaven, head Missionary groups call for evacuation from Liberia 07/29/2014 08:40pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Two North Carolina-based missionary groups have ordered the evacuation of their non-essential personnel from Liberia after a doctor and a missionary contracted Ebola.SIM USA President Bruce Johnson announced Tuesday that his group and Samaritan's Purse decided on the evacuati New fears about Ebola spread after plane scare 07/29/2014 08:04pm • KRISTA LARSON Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- No one knows for sure just how many people Patrick Sawyer came into contact with the day he boarded a flight in Liberia, had a stopover in Ghana, changed planes in Togo, and then arrived in Nigeria, where authorities say he died days later from E