SAN FRANCISCO --A federal court in San Francisco Tuesday struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law violates a string of U.S. Supreme Court rulings starting with Roe v. Wade that guarantees a woman's right to an abortion before a fetus is able to survive outside the womb. That's generally considered to be about...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:14:30 GMT

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:14:12 GMT

If you land in an intensive care unit sick enough for doctors to consider withdrawing life support, be warned. Whether and when to pull the plug may depend in large part on the practices and culture of the ICU itself -- perhaps more than your needs or wishes, a new study finds.That may be especially true if youre so ill or incapacitated that you cant make decisions about your own care, according...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:14:12 GMT

Parents across the country took a collective deep breath on Tuesday as they prepared their children for school. It's been a traumatic year -- the shootings in Newtown, Conn., the Boston marathon bombings, and now a devastating tornado in Oklahoma that has killed 24 people and buried a school full of cowering youngsters, killing seven.Its understandable that children and parents are affected by t...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:40:49 GMT

Even the doctors are crying in tornado-ravaged Oklahoma.The monster tornado that swept through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday afternoon that has claimed at least 24 lives has also wounded more than 120.The most common types of injures from the twister are crush injuries, gruesome impalements and major lacerations, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, who is in Moore, Okla., told TODAY. Most of the injuries are ...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:12:52 GMT