Posts Tagged Health

Blood drive set for flesh-eating bacteria survivor

This undated photo provided by the family shows Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student  fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection that forced doctors to amputate most of her left leg. They warned she would likely lose her other foot and both hands. (AP Photo/Copeland Family)

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia woman fighting a rare flesh-eating disease is alert and bored enough to ask her family for a book.

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Banks’ hit summer includes ‘Hunger Games,’ babies

In this May 5, 2012 photo, actress Elizabeth Banks from, "What to Expect When You're Expecting", poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif.  The film opens in theaters on May 18.  (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With “The Hunger Games” in the rear-view mirror, the ensemble comedy “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” just ahead and a 14-month-old at home, Elizabeth Banks is tired.

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Iraq veteran uses rap to treat his PTSD

Sgt. Leo Dunson poses for a photo at his apartment, Thursday, April 26, 2012, in Las Vegas. Dunson is trying to turn his PTSD from serving in Iraq into a rap career. The Las Vegas college student has self-published several albums with songs like “If I Don’t Make it Home” and “My 1st Kill.”   (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, like his divorce or inability to make friends after returning from the war.

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Cutler: Thumb fine, ready to return

CHICAGO (AP) — Quarterback Jay Cutler says his right thumb is fine and he can’t wait to return to lead a significantly upgraded Bears offense.

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Britain bedeviled by binge drinking

A man is taken into the ambulance, known as a "booze bus,"  dedicated to keeping drunk people out of trouble on the streets, and out of hospital emergency rooms in the Soho area of central London area of Soho late Friday, April, 21, 2012. Binge drinking has reached crisis levels in Britain, health experts say, costing the cash-strapped National Health Service 2.7 billion pounds (US$4.4 billion) a year, including the cost of hospital admissions related to booze-fueled violence and longer-term health problems. Unlike all other major health threats, liver disease is on the rise in Britain, increasing by 25 percent in the last decade and causing a record level of deaths, according to recent government figures.  (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

LONDON (AP) — The girls slumped in wheelchairs look barely conscious, their blond heads lolling above the plastic vomit bags tied like bibs around their necks.

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