Josh Duhamel: Seeing Fergie's Ultrasound Makes Pregnancy Real

Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 02/22/2013 at 11:00 AM ET Stefanie Keenan/WireimageJosh Duhamel is ready for fatherhood, but says seeing wife Fergie‘s ultrasound makes the precious expectation of having his own child ever so real.“It’s very exciting. Seeing that ultrasound is unlike anything you’ve...

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FDA approves new targeted breast cancer drug

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind breast cancer medication that targets tumor cells while sparing healthy ones.The drug Kadcyla from Roche combines the established drug Herceptin with a powerful chemotherapy drug and a third chemical linking the medicines together. The chemical keeps the cocktail intact until it binds to a cancer cell, delivering a potent...

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HP lifts Wall Street, S&P on pace for first weekly loss of year

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Friday, rebounding off two days of losses as Dow component Hewlett-Packard surged on strong results, but the S&P 500 was on track to end a seven-week-long streak of gains. The S&P shed 1.9 percent over the previous two sessions, its worst two-day drop since early November, putting the index on pace for its first weekly decline of the year. The...

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Deadly Bombings Hit Southern India City

Mahesh Kumar A/Associated PressA member of the bomb squad with a sniffer dog arrived at a blast site in Hyderabad on Thursday. NEW DELHI — Two bombs planted on bicycles killed at least 11 people and wounded 50 in a busy shopping district in the southern India city of Hyderabad at the height of rush hour Thursday night in what officials said may have been a coordinated attack. Sushil Kumar...

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Scott and Lauren Sterling Adopt Five Peruvian Siblings

Heroes Among Us By Ken Lee 02/21/2013 at 01:45 PM EST Left to right: Gershon, 15; Joel, 11; Lauren, 30; Scott, 43; Sibila, 9; Yhonson, 17; Betsi, 12; Laney, 3; and Logan, 19 Courtesy The Sterling Family Two years ago, Scott and Lauren Sterling were sitting in their...

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Flu shot did poor job against worst bug in seniors

ATLANTA (AP) — For those 65 and older, this season's flu shot is only 9 percent effective against the most common and dangerous flu bug, according to a startling new government report.Flu vaccine tends to protect younger people better than older ones and never works as well as other kinds of vaccines. But experts say the preliminary results for seniors are disappointing and highlight the need for...

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Wall Street drops again, data raises growth concerns

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Thursday and were on track for their biggest two-day decline since November as weak data suggested expectations for economic growth were overly optimistic. The two-day decline marked the U.S. stock market's first sustained pullback this year. The Standard & Poor's 500 is up 5.2 percent so far this year. The benchmark index has climbed for seven...

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Tibetan Teenagers Die in Double Self-Immolation

Two Tibetan teenagers killed themselves by self-immolation on Tuesday to protest Chinese rule in Tibet, according to reports on Wednesday by a Tibet advocacy group and Radio Free Asia. The two were among the youngest Tibetans to kill themselves in protest, and the act was a rare instance in which Tibetans committed self-immolation together. The teenagers were identified as Rinchen, 17, who...

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Scarlett Johansson Is Not Engaged to Romain Dauriac

Buzz By Maggie Coughlan 02/20/2013 at 01:50 PM EST Scarlett Johansson and Romain Dauriac Elder Ordonez/INF Is Scarlett Johansson headed down the aisle?After the Hitchcock actress, 28, was spotted wearing a pear-shaped diamond ring in New York City on Monday, rumors...

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Drug overdose deaths up for 11th consecutive year

CHICAGO (AP) — Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines."The big picture is that this is a big problem that has gotten much worse quickly," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which gathered and analyzed...

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