Officials: NM mom struck by lightning, gives birth

A pregnant New Mexico woman has survived a bolt from the blue to give birth to a bouncing baby girl.

Youth homicide rate hits lowest mark in 30 years

The homicide rate for older children and young adults has hit its lowest point in at least three decades, but the decline has been slowing, according to a new government report.

Study: Brainpower in the very old may be improving

If you're lucky enough to live into your 90s, how well will your brain hold up? You may have an edge over people who got there ahead of you, a new study hints.

A street vendor fries food for customers during lunch time in Mexico City, Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Mexico has surpassed the United States in levels of adult obesity. Almost one-third of adult Mexicans, 32.8 percent, are obese compared to 31.8 percent of Americans, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO.

UN: Mexico surpasses United States in obesity

Mexico has surpassed the United States in levels of adult obesity, a dubious distinction that experts attribute to Mexicans abandoning their traditional diet for processed snack foods and drinks. Photo Gallery Available

Anti-abortion protesters holding placards walk through Ireland's capital, Dublin, in an anti-abortion protest Saturday, July 6, 2013. More than 35,000 activists marched to the parliament building to oppose Irish government plans to enact a bill legalizing terminations for women in life-threatening pregnancies. The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill is expected to be passed into law next week.

Deadlines come and go in Ireland's abortion vote

Ireland's lawmakers were supposed to have voted by now. Will they pass the country's first abortion bill Thursday? Photo Gallery Available

In this May 22, 2013 photo provided by the University of Missouri, Bob Harrison writes in his TigerPlace apartment in Columbia, Mo., as different sensors mounted near the ceiling record activity patterns. The sensor technology is unobtrusive and does not interfere with his everyday tasks. Researchers at the University of Missouri are studying high-tech monitoring systems that promise new safety nets for seniors living on their own.

High-tech gadgets monitor seniors' safety at home

It could mean no more having to check up on Mom or Dad every morning: Motion sensors on the wall and a monitor under the mattress one day might automatically alert you to early signs of trouble well before an elderly loved one gets sick or suffers a fall. Photo Gallery Available

Texas House passes abortion bill; Senate next stop

The Texas House approved new abortion limits Wednesday in a second special session, less than two weeks after Senate Republicans failed to finish work on the bill amid a filibuster and raucous protests. Photo Gallery Available

Catholic hospitals accept birth control compromise

In a split with U.S. bishops, a trade group for Catholic hospitals said Tuesday it can accept the Obama's administration latest compromise on birth control coverage by religious employers.

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, and GOP leaders, pauses while meeting with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 9, 2013, following a Republican strategy session. Boehner said President Barack Obama should grant individuals a reprieve from the Affordable Care Act's coverage requirement — just like the White House did last week for larger employers. Last week, the Obama Administration unexpectedly announced a one-year delay in the employer requirement, saying more time was needed to work out technical issues.

GOP wants delay in health law's individual mandate

Framing a new argument against President Barack Obama's health care law, congressional GOP leaders called Tuesday for a delay in the law's requirement that individual Americans carry health insurance. Photo Gallery Available

FILE - In this June 11, 2007 file photo, Helen Heinlo smokes outside of a coffee shop in Belmont, Calif. Some smokers trying to get coverage in 2014 under President Barack Obama’s health care law may get a break from tobacco-use penalties that could have made their premiums unaffordable. The Obama administration _ in yet another health care overhaul delay _ has quietly notified insurers that a computer system glitch will limit penalties that the law says the companies may charge smokers. A fix will take at least a year to put in place.

A break for smokers? Glitch may limit penalties

They huddle outside office buildings and they can't satisfy their nicotine cravings by lighting up on planes and trains, but now smokers could be getting a break from an unlikely source.

Unusual pattern of spine injuries from jet crash

Many survivors of Saturday's plane crash in San Francisco have a surprising pattern of spine injuries that a doctor says shows how violently they were shaken despite wearing seat belts. Photo Gallery Available

FILE - In this April 26, 2013 file photo provided by OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill., Hannah Warren, 2, lies in bed in a post-op room at the Children's Hospital of Illinois in Peoria, after having received a new windpipe in a landmark transplant operation on April 9, 2013. Hannah, who was born in South Korea without a windpipe received a new one made from her own stem cells, died Saturday, July 6, 2013. She was the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment.

Toddler who received lab-made windpipe dies

A 2-year-old girl who was implanted with a windpipe grown from her own stem cells has died, three months after she became the youngest person to receive the experimental treatment. Photo Gallery Available

This photo taken June 12, 2013 shows Hattie Watties in front of cabinets that were lowered in her kitchen in Baltimore, allowing her easier access to items inside that she once struggled to reach on her own. Physical limitations become more difficult with doorways too narrow for walkers, toilets that are lower than chairs, and kitchen counters too tall to sit while cooking. Plus, nearly a third of older adults experience a fall every year, and most who are injured fell inside the home, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "You don't think about that stuff," said Hattie Watties, who can’t imagine leaving her Baltimore home of 36 years, that’s near children and grandchildren. "You just do what you have to."

Fixing up seniors' homes to help them age in place

Alberta Hough struggles to feed herself a snack, her arms shaking badly from Parkinson's disease. Days earlier, the 84-year-old fell while eating, sliding off her kitchen chair. Photo Gallery Available

Tips to help seniors live independently at home

There are many low-cost things that can be done to help seniors live independently their homes for longer periods of time.

This photo taken June 12, 2013 shows Alberta Hough, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, grasping a recently repaired banister as she makes her way up a staircase in her home in Baltimore. Hough struggles to feed herself a snack, her arms shaking badly from Parkinson's disease. Days earlier, the 84-year-old fell while eating, sliding off her kitchen chair. The rest of Hough’s day isn't much easier to navigate.

Fixing up seniors' homes to help them age in place

Alberta Hough struggles to feed herself a snack, her arms shaking badly from Parkinson's disease. Days earlier, the 84-year-old fell while eating, sliding off her kitchen chair. Photo Gallery Available

35,000 march in Dublin against Irish abortion bill

Bearing rosary beads and placards declaring "Kill the bill! Not the child," more than 35,000 anti-abortion activists marched Saturday through Dublin to demand that the Irish government scrap plans to legalize terminations for women in life-threatening pregnancies. Photo Gallery Available

In this photo taken Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Greg Norrish, left, discusses the growing of carrots during a home gardening seminar at the Sacramento Food Bank in Sacramento, Calif. Along with distributing food to low-income clients, the food bank provides seminars, soil, plants and tools for people to organically grow their own vegetables at home.

Sacramento's farm-to-fork food bank changes lives

The Sacramento Food Bank once was one of those standard food distribution centers where bags of processed foods, carbohydrate-laden government commodities and day-old breads and sweets were bagged and handed to people who stood in line for hours to get it. Photo Gallery Available

Dangerous chemicals found in south China river

Residents and water plants along a river in southern China that is used as a drinking source have been warned not to use the river's water after authorities detected excessive amounts of two dangerous chemicals.

Spectators gather to watch the annual LibertyFest Fourth of July Parade in downtown Edmond, Okla, on Thursday, July 4, 2013. Authorities say a boy died after being run over by a float at the end of the parade. Edmond Police Officer James Hamm says the boy was riding on a float at the city's LibertyFest parade on Thursday. Hamm says the boy fell or got down from the float at the end of the parade and was struck by the same vehicle.

Police interview Okla. dad who ran over son, 8

Police hoped to interview about a dozen students of a local karate studio Friday after riding on the Fourth of July parade float driven by a man who accidentally ran over and killed his 8-year-old son.

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