While many people have undergone various vision-correction procedures in which laser light is used to reshape the cornea, there has been some people in and out of the medical profession who have worried the operations were causing damage that would eventually become apparent. ...more

November 10, 2009

An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday. ...more

November 13, 2008

A man who was found not guilty by reason of insanity for threatening to kill the president and several federal judges and FBI agents was ordered released from custody today after a federal judge found he no longer poses a danger. ...more

October 10, 2008

Is everything spinning out of control? Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism. ...more

June 22, 2008

Former "Saturday Night Live" comedian Al Franken saved his best material for Saturday afternoon at the state Democratic convention, where he beat back worries from some party leaders about his U.S. Senate candidacy and earned a resounding endorsement from party activists. ...more

June 8, 2008

Evangelist Billy Graham underwent successful surgery Wednesday to update a shunt that controls excess fluid in his brain and was expected to remain in the hospital for several days. ...more

February 14, 2008

Not long after Jan Donahue's husband left for a two-year tour of duty in Iraq, one of her neighbors tied a yellow ribbon around a tree in the Donahue's yard. ...more

November 10, 2007