Posted 10:52 AM 1/6/2013 by Matt Stafford

BALTIMORE (AP) - Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians has been hospitalized Sunday with an undisclosed illness. The team said he is doing well in a local hospital, and that Arians would not attend the AFC wild-card game between the Colts and Baltimore Ravens. (More)

Posted 9:54 AM 1/4/2013 by Joe Bevans

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing the most sweeping food safety rules in decades, requiring farmers and food companies to be more vigilant in the wake of deadly outbreaks in peanuts, cantaloupe and leafy greens. The long-overdue rules are aimed at reducing the (More)

Posted 2:00 PM 1/3/2013 by Lauren Molenburg

NEW YORK (AP) - This could give you nightmares: 1 in 24 U.S. adults say they recently fell asleep while driving.

And health officials think the number is probably higher. That's because some people don't realize it when they nod off for a second or two behind the wheel.

In a (More)

Posted 10:38 AM 1/3/2013 by Joe Bevans

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The nation's largest rural, nonprofit hospital system is hiring two traditional Native American healers to train medical staff in the Dakotas and Minnesota in an effort to better serve American Indian patients. Sanford Health is in the process of hiring a Lakota/Dakota (More)

Posted 5:36 PM 1/1/2013 by Matt Stafford

GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) - A northern Indiana hospital has fired eight employees who refused to get flu shots under a new policy intended to protect patients from the potentially deadly illness. IU Health Goshen Hospital officials told its staff in September that flu shots would no longer be (More)

Posted 4:44 PM 12/28/2012 by Alyse Rzemek

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A new California law aimed at making it faster and less expensive for women to get pregnant using sperm from a donor they know is scheduled to take effect on January 1. Crafted with women who are single or in same-sex relationships in mind, the new law (More)

Posted 4:42 PM 12/28/2012 by Alyse Rzemek

DENVER (AP) - State health officials say more than 200 people in Colorado have been hospitalized with the flu so far this year, and two young children's deaths have been linked to influenza. Health officials said Friday that both children were under age 3 and died between mid-November (More)

Posted 9:30 AM 12/28/2012 by Lauren Molenburg

MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) - During stressful times as a combat medic in Afghanistan, Mason Sullivan found solace in Vivaldi. New Jersey native Nairobi Cruz was comforted by country music, a genre she had never heard before joining the Army. For Jose Mercedes, it was an eclectic iPod mix that helped (More)

Posted 5:17 PM 12/27/2012 by Joe Bevans

WASHINGTON (AP) - An attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores said Thursday that the arts and crafts chain plans to defy a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill, despite risking potential fines of up to $1.3 million per day.

Posted 9:00 AM 12/27/2012 by Lauren Molenburg

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A new program in Louisville aims to help teens have healthy relationships. National statistics show one in three teens will experience emotional or physical violence while dating. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, teens (More)

Posted 2:36 PM 12/26/2012 by Alyse Rzemek

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela was released Wednesday from the hospital after being treated for a lung infection and having gallstones removed, a government spokesman said.

The 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon will continue to receive medical care at (More)

Posted 9:20 AM 12/24/2012 by Matt Stafford

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa's presidency says former leader Nelson Mandela will spend Christmas Day in hospital. The presidency says in a statement that Mandela's doctors confirmed the news on Monday. The anti-apartheid figure was admitted Dec. 8 to a hospital in Pretoria, the (More)

Posted 10:34 AM 12/23/2012 by Matt Stafford

HOUSTON (AP) - Doctors say former President George H.W. Bush needs to "build up his energy" before he can be released from a Houston hospital. Methodist Hospital spokesman George Kovacik said in an email statement Sunday that doctors are still optimistic that the 88-year-old Bush will (More)