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Brazil striker Neymar to miss rest of World Cup 07/05/2014 02:46am • TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) -- With tears streaming down his face after being kneed in the back, Neymar was carried off the field on a stretcher.He won't be coming back. Not to this World Cup, anyway.The 22-year-old Brazil striker, the one with the hopes of a nation on his s 5 things to know about doping at Tour de France 07/04/2014 04:06pm • SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer LEEDS, England (AP) -- Doping has been an unfortunate part of the Tour de France since its inception in 1903. Instead of today's high-tech performance enhancers like blood-booster EPO, riders juiced up on wine and cocaine, even strychnine, to get a lift in the race. Headbanging caused brain bleed in Motorhead fan 07/04/2014 10:54am • MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) -- It may not destroy your soul, but it turns out heavy metal music can be hazardous to your brain. At least in some rare cases.German doctors say they have treated a Motorhead fan whose headbanging habit ultimately led to a brain injury, but that the ris US officials barred from American's trial in China 07/04/2014 07:50am • BEIJING (AP) -- U.S. diplomats will be barred from the trial in China of an American investigator for GlaxoSmithKline and her British husband who are charged with improperly selling personal information, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said Friday.The arrest of Yu Yingzeng and husband Pe Hungary: 5 people hospitalized, anthrax suspected 07/04/2014 06:40am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Five people have been hospitalized in eastern Hungary, suspected of eating meat infected with anthrax, health officials said Friday.Traces of the deadly bacteria were found in improperly frozen meat from two cows slaughtered illegally in the eastern town of Tiszafured, the Express Scripts cuts payments for customized drugs 07/04/2014 05:00am • MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's largest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, is dramatically scaling back its coverage of compounded medications, saying most of the custom-mixed medicines are ineffective or overpriced.The company, which manages prescriptions fo Marrow transplants can reverse adult sickle cell 07/03/2014 11:10pm • LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Bone marrow transplants can reverse severe sickle cell disease in adults, a small study by government scientists found, echoing results seen with a similar technique used in children.The researchers and others say the findings show age need not be a b Clippers owner's lawyers seek to make case federal 07/03/2014 10:50pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Shortly before the start of a trial to determine whether Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling's estranged wife can sell the team, his lawyers filed a motion Thursday to move the case to federal court, alleging his medical privacy has been violated.A probate court trial is s Wheeler debuts for Yankees; Sabathia has setback 07/03/2014 08:50pm • DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- CC Sabathia's return to the New York Yankees has been set back because of swelling in his injured right knee.Sabathia woke up Thursday with the problem, a day after making his second rehabilitation start.Manager Joe Girardi said Sabathia was sent fo Idaho woman delivers baby while driving to doctor 07/03/2014 06:56pm • HEYBURN, Idaho (AP) -- An Idaho woman gave birth while driving to a doctor appointment and delivered her daughter by herself.Shawna Uriguen delivered the 6-pound, 7-ounce baby Tuesday while she driving from work to a doctor's appointment, the Times-News reported Thursday (http://bit.ly/1ocS1tx). She The South prescribes more painkillers, CDC says 07/03/2014 06:50pm • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Powerful painkillers have been driving the nation's rising rate of overdose deaths, and now the government is singling out the states where doctors write the most prescriptions.A second report released Tuesday spotlights how a crackdown in Florida led t PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS 07/03/2014 05:18pm • The Associated Press Copyright 5/8/2013 Publishers Weekly. Week ending 6/29/14, powered by Nielsen Bookscan 5/8/2013 The Nielsen Company.HARDCOVER FICTION1. "Invisible" by Patterson/Ellis (Little, Brown)2. "Top Secret Twenty-One" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)3. "Silkworm" by Robert Galbraith (LB/Mulh Cops: Truckers duped by woman impersonating doctor 07/03/2014 05:14pm • MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A California truck driver pulled into the Blue Beacon Truck Wash in central Pennsylvania and spotted an advertisement for low-cost health exams for truckers. Needing one for his commercial driver's license, he called the number on the sign and was picked up by a wom Child's family won't directly accept KFC donation 07/03/2014 02:30pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The family who says their 3-year-old girl was asked to leave a KFC restaurant because her scars disturbed customers won't directly accept a $30,000 donation but instead wants the money given to the foundation of a doctor who will work on her face, according to an attorney's st NIH creates network to tackle mysterious diseases 07/03/2014 02:00pm • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is expanding its "mystery disease" program, funding a network at six universities around the country to help diagnose patients with diseases so rare they've been told they're undiagnosable.The National Institutes of Health has eval