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  • FILE - In this July 15, 2010 file photo, Shannon Tavarez relaxes in her room in the Queens Borough of  New York. The 11-year-old actress who suffers from leukemia is recovering after receiving an umbilical-cord blood transplant in a New York hospital, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. The treatment was performed in place of a bone marrow transplant because a suitable donor couldn't be found. Shannon had played a young Nala in "The Lion King" on Broadway. (AP Photo/Rick Maiman, File)

    Young 'Lion King' thespian gets blood transplant

    An 11-year-old girl with leukemia who played young Nala in "The Lion King" on Broadway has undergone a potentially lifesaving procedure in New York.


  • Brewers unable to sign first-round pick Covey

    The Milwaukee Brewers were unable to agree to a contact with their first-round draft pick, right-hander Dylan Covey, before Monday night's signing deadline.


  • Witness: Dangerous drug doses prescribed for Smith

    A pharmacist testified Tuesday he refused to fill a request from two doctors for drugs he believed would have killed Anna Nicole Smith if taken in the doses prescribed.


  • In this Aug. 13, 2010 photo, Matthew Brady, 17, of Foxborough, Mass., poses for a portrait in his home while wearing ear phones and displaying an iPod, Friday. Brady, who has some mild hearing loss, used to listen to the device while running on a treadmill with the volume turned up. A stunning number of teens have lost a little bit of their hearing _ nearly one in five _ and the problem has increased substantially in recent years, a new national study has found. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

    Study: 1 in 5 U.S. teens has hearing loss

    A stunning one in five teens has lost a little bit of hearing, and the problem has increased substantially in recent years, a new national study has found.


  • ** FILE ** President George W. Bush speaks during a news conference at the White House on Jan. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

    Bush drug plan beats cost mark

    Four years into full operation, President George W. Bush's Medicare prescription drug program is coming in well below its projected cost, giving hope to backers of the new health insurance law that it, too, could beat budget expectations.


  • Report: Cancer is the world's costliest disease

    Cancer is the world's top "economic killer" as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report it will present at a global cancer conference in China this week.


  • Defense questions witness in Anna Nicole case

    A hospital psychiatrist who has been critical of Anna Nicole Smith's doctor for overmedicating the model was accused Monday by a defense attorney of weaning Smith from addictive drugs too quickly and ignoring the celebrity model when she went into distress.


  • Publicist: Zsa Zsa Gabor has 2 blood clots removed

    Zsa Zsa Gabor's publicist says doctors removed two blood clots from the 93-year-old actress at a Los Angeles hospital. Publicist John Blanchette says Gabor was in surgery for several hours Saturday for the removal of the clots from her upper body, one of them very close to her heart.


  • Publicist: Zsa Zsa Gabor returns to hospital

    Zsa Zsa Gabor's publicist says the actress returned to a Los Angeles hospital because she experienced complications while recuperating from a broken hip.


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