WASHINGTON (AP) ? Reading, writing, arithmetic ? and PE?
05/23/2013 11:20:09am
Helen Mirren Plays the Queen to Grant Dying Boy's Wish Helen Mirren has treated a 10-year-old boy like royalty.
Oliver Burton, who was born with Down's syndrome and has been diagnosed with cancer, had a wish to meet Queen Elizabeth II....
Director J.J. Abrams aired the clip on 'Conan' in response to controversy surrounding a scene with Alice Eve.
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with additional reporting by Josh Horowitz
NEW YORK (AP) ? The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report.
DENVER (AP) ? In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.
BSB open up to MTV News about making a set list from 20 years of hits, plus their thoughts on tourmates Pauly D and Jesse McCartney.
By Jocelyn Vena
05/23/2013 06:53:03am
Scientists Locate Biomarkers for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Researchers trying to find the key to a mysterious group of digestive ailments have located a number of biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Their discovery could lead to earlier diagnoses and intervention for individuals still asymptomatic.
05/23/2013 10:55:00am
Other nominees at August show include Justin Bieber, 'Pretty Little Liars' and Miley Cyrus.
By Todd Gilchrist
"Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" poster
Photo: Summit Entertainment
05/22/2013 08:56:23pm
UN: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus
GENEVA (AP) ? The World Health Organization says there are now 22 deaths worldwide out of 44 lab-confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.
05/23/2013 10:21:40am
Joe is ready to 'stand up' at his upcoming June 24 court hearing, he tells 'RapFix Live.'
By Rob Markman, with reporting by Sway Calloway
05/22/2013 07:36:45pm
J&J plans filing on more than 10 new drugs by 2017
(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday it plans to submit more than 10 new products for regulatory approval by 2017, including drugs to treat hepatitis C, immune diseases and schizophrenia, and vaccines for flu, rabies and polio. It said products launched since 2009 will account for nearly half of its pharmaceutical sales by 2017. It also said it plans to continue developing its pipeline of new development-stage drugs in Japan and China, where it also has drugs in later stages of development. ...
05/23/2013 08:31:46am
'I've been running around in this music for a long time man. It's time now,' Frenchie tells Mixtape Daily. By Rob Markman, with reporting by Ade Mangum
05/22/2013 03:37:34pm
Saudi Arabia confirms another death from SARS-like virus
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has announced another death from the SARS-like novel coronavirus (nCoV) in its central al-Qassim region, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 17. A non-Saudi, whose nationality and age were not given, died on Tuesday, the Health Ministry said on its website late on Wednesday. It said he had been admitted to a hospital in al-Qassim several days ago with an "acute respiratory syndrome". "Most cases recorded so far are among elderly patients and people with multiple chronic diseases," it added. ...
05/23/2013 08:11:19am
Jaime King Pregnant?but Not Necessarily With a Girl! Jaime King doesn't know if she's having a prince or princess yet.
The pregnant actress' rep tells E! News that a report saying King is having a girl is not...
'I don't want to play every song behind the piano,' Miller tells MTV News of her post-'Idol' debut.
By James Montgomery
05/22/2013 02:49:30pm
BTG says interventional medicine buys could boost sales to $1 bln
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - British pharmaceutical company BTG announced two deals on Thursday that it said could create an interventional medicine business with potential sales of $1 billion. Chief Executive Louise Makin told Reuters the deals would more than double BTG's revenues in the fast-growing market of targeting specific areas rather than administering drugs to the whole body. BTG added to its liver cancer treatments by agreeing to buy the targeted therapies division of Nordion Inc for about $200 million, adding Therasphere radioactive glass beads to its chemotherapy beads unit. ...
05/23/2013 08:07:08am
Heiress says she's signed to Weezy's label and will focus on house music on her summer sophomore album.
By Jocelyn Vena
Paris Hilton
Photo: Jason Merritt/ Getty Images
05/22/2013 01:59:03pm
Ala. Mystery Illness May Be Coincidence
A mystery illness has sickened seven people in southeastern Alabama, killing two of them, according to the state Health Department, but it's not clear whether the patients ? or their symptoms ? are connected.
05/23/2013 07:40:55am
'American Idol' runner-up calls breakthrough country star 'the epitome of class.'
By Jocelyn Vena
05/22/2013 02:35:15pm
GSK flu shot may raise adult narcolepsy risk: Finnish scientists
HELSINKI/LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc's H1N1 pandemic flu shot may put adults at higher risk of developing narcolepsy, not only children as previous studies found, Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare said on Thursday. Growing evidence of a link between GSK's Pandemrix vaccine and an increase in narcolepsy, a rare sleep disorder, among children who received it in Europe has delayed approval of a similar vaccine in the United States. ...
05/23/2013 07:13:28am
Ballerina invite features West's 'Hey Mama'; 'garden chic' party is set for June 2.
By Jocelyn Vena
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian
Photo: Getty Images
05/22/2013 01:37:16pm
Lawyers in Colorado shooting case to challenge insanity defense law
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Public defenders representing James Holmes, accused of killing 12 moviegoers in Colorado last summer, will return to court on Thursday to challenge the state's insanity defense law in a bid to try to avoid the death penalty for their client. Lawyers representing Holmes, 25, are challenging Colorado's capital punishment statute on several fronts, and on Thursday are arguing that it unconstitutionally bars him from calling his own mental health experts at sentencing if he refuses to cooperate with court-appointed psychiatrists. ...
05/23/2013 06:31:46am
Andrew Garfield & Emma Stone Kiss During Charity Event There's nothing like a good charity event to put you in a giving mood.
In this case, it prompted Andrew Garfield to give girlfriend Emma Stone a big kiss on the lips...
Canadian pop-rock star talks to MTV News about her relationship with Manson outside of the studio.
By Christina Garibaldi
05/22/2013 01:19:28pm
Can You Do Yoga if You Aren't Flexible?
I always thought that of yoga as something only done by young, lithe ballet enthusiasts. It was definitely not something practiced by uncoordinated, middle-aged guys who can?t touch their toes. Put me in the latter category and add to that that I?m nearly six-and-a-half feet tall and have had two back...
05/23/2013 06:00:27am
Psy plans to build on the success of 'Gangnam Style' and 'Gentleman' with an album this summer.
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Katie Atkinson
Psy
Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/ Getty Images
05/22/2013 12:20:06pm
BTG builds interventional medicine platform with deals
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's BTG said it would make two acquisitions, one extending its expertise in liver cancer and the other a treatment for severe blood clots, to create an interventional medicine business with potential sales of $1 billion. The company said on Thursday it had agreed to buy the targeted therapies division of Nordion Inc, for about $200 million in a deal that adds Therasphere radioactive glass beads treatment for liver cancer to its chemotherapy beads unit. ...
05/23/2013 03:01:48am
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4 billion a year pneumonia and meningitis vaccine Prevnar 13 for Pfizer. Jansen's next vaccine success could come by taming the superbug MRSA, a drug-resistant bacterium that she has seen ravage a healthy man up close and personally. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infects an estimated 53 million people globally and costs more than $20 billion a year to treat. ...
Jenelle Evans' Arrest: Why I Missed My Court Hearing Jenelle Evans wants to set the record straight.
After getting arrested on Monday for failing to attend her court hearing on time, the Teen Mom 2 star explained on her blog yesterday what...
Fans are getting an intimate look at the Mrs. Carter Show, thanks to behind-the-scenes clips.
By Jocelyn Vena
05/22/2013 11:52:41am
Teen birth rates decline in most US states
The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
05/23/2013 12:21:35am
'We're working on some mixes ourselves,' Daft Punk say ... and 'Get Lucky' is first to get the treatment.
By James Montgomery
Daft Punk's Random Access Memories Photo: Columbia
05/22/2013 10:53:54am
Nebraska attorney general wants abortion clinic nurse's license revoked
By Katie Schubert OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning on Wednesday filed a petition to revoke the license of the only nurse at a controversial abortion clinic in the state for allegedly providing substandard care and improperly administering drugs. ...
05/22/2013 11:45:56pm
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation. It was Poland's first face transplant.
By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Merck & Co's experimental insomnia drug moved a step closer to U.S. approval on Wednesday after a panel of medical experts said it is effective and safe at lower doses. The advisory panel was convened to help the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decide whether to approve the drug, suvorexant, which would be the first in a new class of sedatives that block chemicals in the brain called orexins that help keep people awake. The drugs are designed to help people fall asleep and stay asleep. ...
05/22/2013 09:02:10pm
Fluoride Loosens Bacterial Enamel Grip
Rather than significantly hardening tooth enamel, fluoride may cut cavities by making it harder for oral bacteria to stick around. Karen Hopkin reports
05/22/2013 08:24:08pm
Vote on pot shops could end lingering LA issue
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Voters approved a law limiting the number of medical pot shops in Los Angeles after politicians failed for years to corral the blossoming industry.
05/22/2013 07:37:20pm
Senate committee advances drug compounding bill
By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would increase federal oversight for companies that compound and sell sterile drugs across state lines. The proposed legislation was introduced in response to a meningitis outbreak last fall that killed more than 50 people and sickened more than 700. The outbreak was traced to contamination found in steroid injections made by the New England Compounding Center. The bill was passed unanimously on a voice vote by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee. ...
05/22/2013 06:58:32pm
By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Merck & Co's experimental insomnia drug was safe and effective at the lower of two doses studied, a panel of medical experts said on Wednesday, increasing the chance it will be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The advisory panel was convened to help the FDA decide whether to approve the drug, suvorexant, which would be the first in a new class of sedatives designed to help people fall asleep and stay asleep. ...
05/22/2013 06:57:46pm
Photos: Man Saved by Face Transplant
Polish doctors say they saved a man's life by performing a face transplant just three weeks after he was severely maimed in a workplace accident.
05/22/2013 06:15:31pm
In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.
05/22/2013 06:09:35pm
Health officials probe deadly respiratory illness in Alabama
By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - U.S. and state health authorities are investigating an unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two of 10 people hospitalized with it in Alabama since last week. Preliminary tests do not indicate the bird flu, nor a new mutation of any known influenza virus, said Dr. Mary McIntyre, an assistant state health officer at the Alabama Department of Public Health. Two patients did test positive for the H1N1 strain of the flu. ...
05/22/2013 05:49:51pm
Osteoarthritis Study Could Make Joint Replacement Obsolete
Johns Hopkins researchers have published findings from an osteoarthritis study that could eventually make joint replacement an obsolete treatment for the debilitating disease.
05/22/2013 05:47:00pm
Online tool helps control blood pressure long term
By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study, people with high blood pressure who could communicate with their pharmacists online had better blood pressure control a year after that service ended. Previously researchers had found that patients randomly assigned to the web-based pharmacy care did better than those who used a patient website but had no extra help or were only trained to monitor their blood pressure at home. The new findings suggest some of those benefits may hold up over the long run - even after patients stop messaging with their pharmacists, researchers said. ...
05/22/2013 05:13:36pm
Based on the overwhelmingly negative critical reaction to their latest bro-tastic adventure, it seems the Wolfpack have lost their comedic bite.
The Hangover Part III is now in...
Helen Mirren has treated a 10-year-old boy like royalty.
Oliver Burton, who was born with Down's syndrome and has been diagnosed with cancer, had a wish to meet Queen Elizabeth II....
Eva Longoria is one happy graduate!
The Desperate Housewives star received her Master's Degree in Chicano Studies yesterday from Cal State Northridge. As you can see, the 38-year-old...
Dynamic duos, indeed.
Forbes magazine has released its 2013 ranking of the World's Most Powerful Couples, assembling an eclectic menagerie of formidable twosomes who span the worlds...
UPDATE: Francis released a statement Thursday apologizing for his comments to The Hollywood Reporter. "I did NOT commit a crime at all whatsoever. All that was publicized were my most...
Brad Pitt brought some Hollywood glam to New Jersey last night!
Angelina Jolie's love surprised fans in Hoboken by showing up at an advance screening of World War...
Who knew Zach Galifianakis and Chelsea Handler were once snuggle bunnies?
During the funnyman's appearance on Wednesday night's Chelsea Lately to plug The Hangover Part III,...
Well, it's tit for tat.
Star Trek Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams spurred grumblings for including a head-scratching scene that showed Alice Eve in her undies?a scene that...
Khloé Kardashian Odom is continuing to defend sister Kim Kardashian from haters who criticize the mom-to-be's pregnancy body.
"I've been criticized about my weight...
Jaime King doesn't know if she's having a prince or princess yet.
The pregnant actress' rep tells E! News that a report saying King is having a girl is not...
The first wave of Teen Choice Award nominations was announced today and, though The Twilight Saga has ended, its immortal beloveds will live on thanks to fan-based voting.
The final...
How to go about smuggling "a smidge of pot" from Mexico into the United States?
Well, first get a stripper to play your wife?and make sure the conveniently hot...
Amanda Bynes is not happy. We know, because she indicated as much in a lengthy tweet.
Her ire is directed this time at In Touch Weekly, which, the actress claims, used...
There's nothing like a good charity event to put you in a giving mood.
In this case, it prompted Andrew Garfield to give girlfriend Emma Stone a big kiss on the lips...
The Fast & Furious 6 premiere last night at Universal City Walk in L.A. was smokin'.
Literally.
The scent of, um, funny cigarettes could be smelled throughout the red...
Marion Cotillard can rest a little easier.
A woman accused of harassing the Oscar winner has been sentenced by a New York federal court to probation and mental-health treatment after...
Jennifer Lopez has gotten involved in yet another business venture.
The woman of many hats has dipped into smartphone territory, teaming with Verizon Wireless to announce the launch of...
Jenelle Evans wants to set the record straight.
After getting arrested on Monday for failing to attend her court hearing on time, the Teen Mom 2 star explained on her blog yesterday what...
Most people only get to listen to Taylor Swift's music while suffering through a breakup.
But despite a report that Kristen Stewart actually visited the singer's home after she...
After 51-year-old Jackie Underwood passed away following a battle with breast cancer, her children wanted to tell the world exactly how they felt about the horrific...
