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USS Iowa on way to new home in Southern California

The USS Iowa - the iconic World War II-era battleship that once served as transport to President Franklin D. Roosevelt - left San Francisco Bay on Saturday on its way to its new home in Southern California.

  • A warning label is attached to a package of Tide laundry detergent packets in Houston on Thursday, May 24, 2012. The miniature detergent packets arrived on store shelves in recent months, touted as a solution to bulky bottles and messy spills. But doctors across the country say children are confusing the tiny, brightly colored packets with candy and swallowing them. Nearly 250 cases have been reported to poison control centers.

    P&G to add latches to make detergent packs safer

    The maker of Tide Pods will create a new double-latch lid to deter children from accessing and eating the brightly colored detergent packets, a company spokesman said Friday. Photo Gallery Available

  • Countries aim to cut quarter of premature deaths

    The World Health Organization says its members are poised to agree to a target of cutting a quarter of premature deaths from chronic diseases by 2025.

  • Judge denies Calif. TB patient's release request

    A California judge has refused to release a tuberculosis patient who was jailed and charged after allegedly refusing to take medication to keep his disease from becoming contagious.

  • Laundry detergent makers introduced miniature packets in recent months such as this one photographed Thursday, May 24, 2012, in Houston. But doctors across the country say children are confusing the tiny, brightly colored packets with candy and swallowing them. Nearly 250 cases have been reported to poison control centers.

    P&G to add latches to make detergent packs safer

    The maker of Tide Pods will create a new double-latch lid to deter children from accessing and eating the brightly colored detergent packets, a company spokesman said Friday. Photo Gallery Available

  • Report: State tobacco prevention funding lacking

    States have spent only about 3 percent of the billions they've received in tobacco taxes and legal settlements over the last decade to fund tobacco prevention programs, making it harder to reduce the death and disease caused by tobacco use, according to a report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

  • This April 4, 2007, photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Michael Worthington. Worthington, awaiting execution for the rape and strangulation of Griffin in 1995, could face execution with the same anesthetic used in the overdose death of pop star Michael Jackson. Missouri announced it is switching to a single drug, propofol, for executions making it the first state ever to use it as an execution drug.

    Missouri opts for untested drug for executions

    The same anesthetic that caused the overdose death of pop star Michael Jackson is now the drug of choice for executions in Missouri, causing a stir among critics who question how the state can guarantee a drug untested for lethal injection won't cause pain and suffering for the condemned. Photo Gallery Available

  • In this undated image taken from video courtesy of KATU 2, Max Hirsh, 22, speaks during an interview in Portland, Ore. Hirsh, who is openly gay, contends an Oregon psychiatrist he was seeing was practicing “conversion therapy” to change his sexual orientation. His experience is the subject of an ethics complaint filed on May 8, 2012, by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which plans to take the same action in other states as part of a national campaign to stop therapists from trying to make gay people straight.

    Man says Ore. psychiatrist told him he wasn't gay

    Max Hirsh says he sensed something wasn't quite right when the psychiatrist focused on his failures with sports and teenage girls, as well as his deficient relationships with older men, particularly his father.

  • Person visited neonatal units before TB diagnosis

    A person with an active case of tuberculosis who visited two Northern California neonatal intensive care units had a valid reason to be there and had not been diagnosed at the time, officials said Wednesday.

  • UN global health agency chief wins 2nd term

    Dr. Margaret Chan, who has steered the World Health Organization through crises over bird flu and the respiratory SARS bug, has won a second five-year term as its director-general.

  • UN: Fukushima workers' deaths not from radiation

    A year after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima disaster, a United Nations agency preparing a report on the health effects says none of the six former reactor workers who have died since the catastrophe perished due to the effects of radiation.

  • This undated image released by PFCAuctions shows a vial containing Ronald Reagan's dried blood residue. A Channel Islands online auction house has angered Ronald Reagan's foundation by claiming to offer a vial that once contained his blood. The auctioneers say it was used by the laboratory that tested Reagan's blood when he was hospitalized after a 1981 assassination attempt in Washington. Bidding for the vial had passed the 7,000 pound ($11,000) mark Tuesday May 22, 2012.

    Auction claims it's selling vial with Reagan blood

    A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan - a move denounced Tuesday by the late U.S. president's family and his foundation. Photo Gallery Available

  • FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2009 file photo, a merchant speaks with a woman holding her sick child at a pharmacy in Pailin, Cambodia. More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to combat the disease, a study said Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

    Study: Fake malaria drugs common in Asia, Africa

    More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to fight the disease, a study said Tuesday. Photo Gallery Available

  • Final advice: Panel against routine prostate test

    Healthy men shouldn't get routine prostate cancer screenings, says updated advice from a government panel that found the PSA blood tests do more harm than good.

  • Calif lettuce grower expands recall across nation

    A California lettuce grower has expanded a recall of some bagged salads after routine sampling detected listeria contamination. No illnesses have been reported.

  • FILE - In this March 29, 2012 file photo, the beef product known as lean finely textured beef, or "pink slime," is displayed during a plant tour of Beef Products Inc. in South Sioux City, Neb., where the product is made. Gerald Zirnstein, the microbiologist who coined the term "pink slime," says it came to him in the spur of the moment as he was composing an email to a coworker at the U.S. Department of Agriculture a decade ago. Although it's been used as a filler for decades, the product became the center of controversy only after Zirnstein's vivid moniker for it was quoted in a 2009 New York Times article on the safety of meat processing methods.

    The making of the term 'pink slime'

    "Pink slime" was almost "pink paste" or "pink goo."

  • Study: Simple scope exam cuts colon cancer deaths

    A simple, cheaper exam of just the lower part of the bowel can cut the risk of developing colon cancer or dying of the disease, a large federal study finds.

  • FDA says Xarelto reduced deadly heart attacks

    The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that a blood thinner from Johnson & Johnson appears to reduce life-threatening blood clots in high-risk patients, although it also increases the risk of internal bleeding.

  • CDC: Half of overweight teens have heart risk

    Half the nation's overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says.

  • FILE - In this June 3, 2010 file photo, Dr. Steven Birnbaum works with a patient in a CT scanner at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, N.H. New lung cancer screening guidelines from three medical groups recommend annual scans but only for an older group of current or former heavy smokers. The advice applies only to those aged 55 to 74. The risks of screening younger or older smokers or nonsmokers outweigh any benefits, according to the guidelines published online Sunday, May 20, 2012, in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

    Lung cancer CT scans: Just for older heavy smokers

    New lung cancer screening guidelines from three medical groups recommend annual scans but only for an older group of current or former heavy smokers.

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