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Marrow swaps can reverse adult sickle cell disease 07/01/2014 05:50pm • CHICAGO (AP) -- A small but promising government study found that bone marrow transplants can reverse severe sickle cell disease in adults, just like in kids.The technique is a modified version of what doctors have done in children. It worked in 26 of 30 adults studied. Donors are a brother or siste Woman accused of poisoning young sons with Visine 07/01/2014 05:41pm • GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A Maryland woman poisoned her young sons with eye drops and faces charges of aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of children, Pennsylvania police said.State police in Gettysburg announced Monday they had arrested Samantha Elizabeth Unger, 23, after she told them sh Mother accused of poisoning young sons with Visine 07/01/2014 05:31pm • GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Police in Pennsylvania say a Maryland woman poisoned her young sons with eye drops.State police in Gettysburg announced Monday they had arrested 23-year-old Samantha Unger, of Thurmont, after she told them she put drops of Visine into drinks for her 3-year-old and that her 1- 911 tape: Inmate's body in hot NYC cell was stiff 07/01/2014 05:09pm • JAKE PEARSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City jail doctor told a 911 dispatcher that a homeless mentally ill ex-Marine discovered in a 101-degree cell in February was in rigor mortis and CPR was stopped after 20 minutes, according to a recording of the call obtained Tuesday by The A 'Sleepwalker's Guide' is a beautiful family saga 07/01/2014 12:39pm • MICHELLE SCHERAGA Associated Press "The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing" (Random House), Mira JacobAt the start of Mira Jacob's beautiful debut, "The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing," Amina Eapen's mother summons her home to Albuquerque, New Mexico, claiming that her father is acting strangely (though Report: 58 killed in hospitals in S.Sudan conflict 07/01/2014 12:39pm • TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Patients were shot in their hospital beds, medical and humanitarian staff killed, and medical facilities were destroyed in fighting in South Sudan since December in actions that breach international law, an aid group said in a report released Tuesday Studies question UN strategies to save mothers 07/01/2014 12:24pm • MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) -- In the past decade, billions of dollars have been spent trying to save the lives of mothers in developing countries using strategies -- usually inexpensive drugs -- deemed essential by the U.N. health agency.Yet two large analyses of maternal health progr Many challenges face ex-inmates living with HIV 07/01/2014 07:34am • DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Several times each month, a white bus picks up newly released ex-inmates at New York's Rikers Island jail complex and drives into Harlem, where helping hands await at a transition program run by a nonprofit called the Fortune Society.These new arrivals Reaction to Supreme Court birth control decision 07/01/2014 04:33am • The Associated Press The Supreme Court ruled Monday that some companies like the Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and-craft stores can avoid the contraceptives requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, if they have religious objections.A sampling of reaction:___"Today, t Childhood vaccines again deemed generally safe 07/01/2014 01:10am • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- The latest analysis of childhood vaccines confirms they're generally safe.The report should be reassuring to parents, the researchers say. For example, there still is no evidence the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine causes autism. Nor is there any proof va Clippers sale hinges on legalities of family trust 06/30/2014 11:10pm • TAMI ABDOLLAH Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers will hinge on the technicalities of family trust law and whether Donald Sterling's estranged wife had the right to unilaterally negotiate a deal with former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.The July 7 trial Brazil downplays Neymar injuries ahead of quarters 06/30/2014 08:40pm • TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) -- Neymar will be fit to play in the World Cup quarterfinal against Colombia despite thigh and knee injuries sustained against Chile, Brazil's football confederation said Monday.The confederation said team doctor Jose Luiz Runco checked Neymar a Cuba: Just 50 cars sold in 6 months under new law 06/30/2014 08:35pm • ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) -- Just 50 automobiles and four motorcycles have been sold in Cuba in the nearly six months since a new law took effect that let islanders buy vehicles from state-run dealerships without a special permit for the first time in decades, authorities said Mo On pace: Ending veteran homelessness in D.C. 06/30/2014 05:22pm • WASHINGTON -- Alan Banks is an Air Force veteran and father. In 1996 he was married and making six figures in security and law enforcement when he experienced something he never imagined. "I had a very good income, a home built, a lot of nice toys and was living life very well," says Banks, a D.C Transgender officer fired in Connecticut 06/30/2014 04:51pm • DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- When Francesca Quaranta told her fellow police officers in 2012 that she was transgender, she said it began a long and harsh career decline that included discrimination and harassment and culminated with her firing last week.Quaranta, 47, believe