Morales mum on Cuba trip after Chavez surgery

 Bolivian President Evo Morales made a lightning trip this weekend to Havana where ally Hugo Chavez is convalescing after cancer surgery, but was mostly silent Monday on the details of his trip or even whether he met with the ailing Venezuelan leader.The secrecy surrounding his visit was sure to add to the uncertainty surrounding Chavez's condition, despite reassurances Monday from Venezuelan...

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Oregon Teen Loses Legs to Mystery Illness

An Oregon teen has lost both her legs to a mysterious infection, leaving doctors searching for answers.Tabitha Schulke, an 18-year-old woman who wanted to devote her future to helping others as a missionary, is now fighting for her life in the critical care unit of a Portland Hospital.The teen first started feeling ill on Thanksgiving morning, when she came down with flu-like symptoms, but in a strange...

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Relationship Ranch: Horses Help Couples Heal Broken Hearts

It's fascinating to watch a man trying to win back the love of his life by talking to a horse.Horse therapy has been used for decades to help treat people with physical disabilities or learning disorders, but now they are also being used in an unconventional form of couples counseling.Nancy Hamilton and Lottie Grimes are marriage therapists who run Relationship Ranch in Louisville, Colo. They are...

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NJ residents go home after toxic chemicals cleared

PAULSBORO, New Jersey (Reuters) - Residents of New Jersey evacuated after a freight train derailment last week spewed toxic vinyl chloride began returning home on Friday as tests of the air came back clean, a Coast Guard official said.Exactly one week after a bridge collapsed, derailing seven of the 82 Conrail freight-train cars crossing the Mantua Creek in southern New Jersey, residents who were...

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Supreme Court to hear "pay-for-delay" drug case

(Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether brand-name drug companies may pay money to generic drug  rivals to keep their lower-priced products off the market, a practice estimated to cost consumers and the government billions of dollars each year. The arrangements, known as "pay-for-delay" or "reverse payments," have for more than a decade vexed antitrust enforcers, including...

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FDA panel opposes recommending painkiller, cites safety

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts voted against recommending Zogenix Inc's Zohydro painkiller for FDA approval on Friday, citing concerns about the danger of addiction posed by the drug class known as opioids.But FDA officials said the regulatory agency could still approve the drug for sale in the United States by imposing restrictions to protect...

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Judge rejects bid to block Washington state "stoned driving" rules

OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - A judge on Friday rejected a request by a medical marijuana  user to block Washington state from enforcing tougher "stoned driving" rules after it became one of the first U.S. states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.Washington state voters last month approved marijuana legalization by a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent, making the state, along with...

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