Hispanic dialysis patients are more at risk for staph infections, the CDC says
Hispanic patients had a 40% higher risk of staph than white patients, a study found, and black patients are more at risk as well. The report outlines steps doctors can take to keep patients safer.
Read more ...President Biden will give Americans a progress report on his four-part Unity Agenda, which he announced at last year's State of the Union address.
Read more ...Harry Whittington, the Texas attorney shot by Cheney during a 2006 hunting trip, dies
Whittington died at age 95 his home Saturday in Austin. In 2006, he and others were hunting with then Vice President Dick Cheney on a ranch, when Cheney, while aiming for a bird, struck Whittington.
Read more ...In Turkey and Syria, outdated building methods all but assured disaster from a quake
Structures that were constructed before building codes were updated following a 1999 earthquake in Turkey used lots of concrete and masonry, making them brittle and more vulnerable to collapse.
Read more ...In a first, South Korea must compensate a Vietnam War massacre survivor
Nguyen Thi Thanh was 7 years old in 1968 when she says South Korean marines killed five of her family members and shot her in the stomach.
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