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Screening is DNA-based WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first screening test for colon cancer that uses patients’ DNA to help spot pot...

Activity cuts risk of breast cancer For women past childbearing age, a new study finds that a modest amount of exercise — four hours a week of walking or more intensive p...

MADRID — A Spanish missionary priest being treated for Ebola died today in a Madrid hospital amid a worldwide debate over who should get experimental Ebola treatments. A...

Looting near scene spreads FERGUSON, Mo. — A day of anger over a fatal police shooting of an apparently unarmed black man in suburban St. Louis turned to mayhem as people...

Brady wounded with Reagan in '81 WASHINGTON — Trying to bring a case against John Hinckley Jr. in the homicide of former White House press secretary James Brady could pro...

DALLAS — Thirty coins stamped by the U.S. Mint in the 19th century to test designs and metals were sold at auction for more than a half-million dollars. Dallas-based Her...

5,000 added to dictionary NEW YORK — To Scrabble fanatics, big gifts sometimes come in small packages. The word “te” as a variant of “ti,” the seventh tone on the musical...

ATLANTA — An American doctor infected with Ebola while working in Liberia indicated Friday he’s getting stronger every day, and the husband of a second aid worker with t...

PHOENIX — Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald visited a VA hospital Friday for the first time since taking over the embattled agency last month, meeting with vete...

Scientists develop game-changer It could be a tomato game-changer: Scientists have discovered a gene that would allow commercial tomato plants to tolerate 24 hours of lig...