A fight over safety is brewing on the Upper West Side. CBS 2 HD has learned the city plans to move dozens of mentally ill patients into one neighborhood with little supervision. The neighborhood in question already houses the highest

A New Jersey family's dog has been sentenced to die for attacking a landscaper. The family says the pet was defending its owners. "Congo" will live to see another day. A Princeton Municipal Court judge ruled that the 2½-year-old German

Nike Inc is recalling 235,000 football helmet chin straps after receiving reports of head and face injuries because the straps broke, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Tuesday. The recalled football helmet chin strap was made in China

A Lebanese woman who worked for the CIA and FBI pleaded guilty on Tuesday to using government computers to gain information about the Hezbollah militant group and fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, the Justice Department said. Nada Prouty, 37, pleaded guilty

The DNCC held its first media walk through at the venue for the Denver convention today, and there's fantastic news for bloggers. They are extending the 50 state strategy to include us, the bloggers, at the convention. They are reserving

Is it time to fire up a "Draft Mike Moore" website? From an online chat at WashingtonPost.com: Alexandria, Va.: Shailagh, I recently saw a report that indicated that Sen. Cochran of Mississippi was considering retiring. Are you aware if there's

For more than a decade, Northwest environmentalists have waged a war on what they consider unsustainable logging practices. They've filed lawsuit after lawsuit to stop timber sales. That's why in timber towns, environmentalists are often blamed for ruining the economy.

Activists opposed to illegal immigration said Tuesday they'll begin collecting signatures next week for an initiative for next year's ballot.

The importance of vitamin D for bone health is well established, but few data exist on the relation between plasma levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and risk of fracture. The authors examined this association within the EPIC-Oxford (European Prospective Investigation into

Two national cross-sectional surveys of fatigue and its effects in long-distance road transport in Australia showed that stimulant use was a common feature of this industry. Between one in five and one in three drivers reported using stimulants at least

Women who deliver preterm are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, but mechanisms are not understood. The authors considered that inflammation in women with spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB) might be related to their metabolic profile, such as lipids, and tested

Risk ratio and risk difference are parameters of interest in many medical studies. The risk ratio has a property that the value for the outcome Y = 0 is not the inverse of the risk ratio for the outcome Y

Almost 60% of American households were connected to the Internet in 2001, when the Millennium Cohort Study, the largest longitudinal study ever undertaken by the Department of Defense, was launched. To facilitate survey completion, increase data integrity, and encourage cohort

Oral contraceptives are the most popular reversible method of contraception in the United States. Although most women using oral contraceptives are reliably protected against pregnancy, nearly half of the 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States annually occur among