Medical

It's true.  A 25-year-old Australian woman is suing the doctor who delivered her when she was born.  She claims she wouldn't have the medical difficulties she has, if he had honored her mother's wishes for a delivery by Caesarean section.

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After decades of removing the slightest possibility of a child getting hurt on a playground, some are now saying the safety advocates went too far, and that America's playgrounds for children are actually "too safe."

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The capital murder trial of a Lufkin nurse accused of killing five dialysis patients by injecting them with bleach is set for September in Angelina County District Court.

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Because of the ongoing drought, Angelina County Commissioners have voted to extend the official ban on outdoor burning, and they've also forbidden  all sales and private use of fireworks over the July 4th weekend.

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In a clear signal that the times they really are a’ changin’, it’s reported that more and more physicians are closing their private practices and moving into larger health care systems.

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Here's sobering news for people thinking of traveling to Europe this summer.  A new strain of the deadly E.coli bacterium has broken out in Germany, and it has spread to several other European countries, including Great Britain.

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There are more than 400 people buried in the Harris County Pauper's Cemetery just outside Houston who've never been identified.  Forensic Anthropologists are using state of the art forensic technology to identify some of them, and, it is hoped, figure out how and why they died.

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A blood test that should be available in Europe by the end of the year could give you a pretty good indication of how fast you are aging and how much longer you will live.

The test measures telomeres, structures on the end of each of your chromosomes, which scientists think may hold the key to determining a person's "true age."

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