Grieving Mother Fights for 9/11 Tree
New York City park officials ignore tree rescued near Ground Zero. Ground zero - New York - United States - Metro Areas - New York City Metro

Paying More for Less Insurance Coverage?
Workers are paying 14 percent more for their employer-sponsored plans than they did last year as a bigger chunk of healthcare costs shifted from employers to employees, according to a new survey. Health care - Insurance - Business - United States - Kaiser Family Foundation

PHOTOS: X-Rays: Human Voodoo Dolls?
Some doctors are alarmed by what they see as a growing trend by adolescents to mutilate their bodies through self-embedding, which can involve inserting shards of wood, glass or paper clips under their skin. doll - Shopping - Crafts - Toys and Games - Human

Avandia Faces Scrutiny in U.K.
On July 15 -- a day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration completed two days of hearings on the diabetes drug Avandia -- a British advisory commission on drugs concluded that the product should be withdrawn from the market, according to an investigation conducted by BMJ. BMJ - United States - Food and Drug Administration - Health - GlaxoSmithKline

More Americans Taking Prescription Drugs
Nearly half of all Americans -- 48 percent -- took at least one prescription drug in a one-month period in 2007-2008, a four-percentage-point hike over a decade, researchers found. Health - Pharmacy - Drugs - Prescription drug - United States

Kids' Sports-Related Concussions Soar
Emergency department visits for concussions occurring in children's and teens' team sports have risen sharply since the late 1990s, researchers say. Sport - People - Training - Youth and High School - Family

Michael Douglas' Life as a Cancer Patient
Cancer patient survives 31 grueling days in radiation treatment similar to what "Wall Street" actor has already begun. Cancer - Health - Head and neck cancer - Conditions and Diseases - Organizations

'Miracle' Encounter: Nurse Finds Long-Lost Dad in Hospital Bed
A nurse was reunited with the father she had never met after a chance bedside encounter at a New York hospital for the terminally ill. Hospital - Nurse - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Organizations

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Garden of Death: Man Survives Freak Infection
Researchers have published a case report involving a 67-year-old man admitted to a hospital in March after spending eight days suffering from fever, shortness of breath and confusion. Doctors diagnosed pneumonia, but were at a loss to find the underlying cause, according to the report this week in The Lancet. Pneumonia - Infectious disease - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Bacterial