A Nebraska lawmaker with an important role in changing the state's safe-haven statute says the Legislature might be asked to do more than put an age limit in the law that has led to the abandonment of nearly three dozen children. ...more

November 17, 2008

Nebraska lawmakers got to work Friday in a rare special legislative session designed to repair a unique "safe haven" law that has unintentionally allowed parents to abandon nearly three dozen children as old as 17. ...more

November 15, 2008

Tampa's SRI Surgical came closer to posting a quarterly profit as the company restructured its finances. ...more

November 5, 2008

Tampa's SRI Surgical Inc. came closer to posting a quarterly profit as the company restructured its finances. ...more

November 4, 2008

A vaccine against rotavirus, the leading cause of diarrhea in infants, has led to a dramatic drop in hospitalization and emergency room visits since it came on the market two years ago, doctors reported Saturday. ...more

October 27, 2008

A medical device company has ordered the recall of certain batches of a small mechanical heart pump, saying five people have died while using the device. ...more

October 26, 2008

Five Manatee County Jail inmates were hospitalized today after ingesting a poisonous flower that causes a "recreational high," authorities said. ...more

October 22, 2008

Why is it so hard to fix health care? If we just make all the doctors and hospitals charge the same rates they charge insurance companies, most people could afford health care. ...more

October 18, 2008

When Nebraska lawmakers passed a "safe-haven" law that allowed parents to abandon children as old as 18, they never seriously thought such drop-offs would become common. ...more

September 27, 2008

A woman was cited for careless driving Wednesday after she clipped the back of a taxi and rear-ended a school bus, police said. ...more

September 25, 2008