In a historic ruling, the California Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that doctors cannot cite their religious beliefs in refusing treatment to gay patients.

Monday's decision overturned a lower court ruling that favored two Christian doctors who refused fertility treatment to a lesbian citing religious grounds. The woman, Guadalupe Benitez, 36, successfully filed suit against the Vista-based North Coast Women's Care Medical Group in 2004 on the basis that their refusal to treat her violated California's anti-discrimination laws

Scientists have recovered antibodies to the virus that caused the devastating 1918 pandemic flu from the bodies of survivors and say it could be useful if another virus similar to that flu breaks out.

Researchers at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University recovered the antibodies from elderly survivors of the pandemic flu

A newborn infant infected with an unknown form of bacteria is in intensive care in an Alberta hospital.

The Chinook Health Region is still awaiting test results to establish the cause and type of the infections. A baby boy died, reportedly, of the same infection Friday morning after surgery

- The controversial plastic used in baby bottles, water bottles, and to line food cans, Bisphenol-A, has been deemed safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

Concern over the effects of the plastic, especially on the very young and old, have caused a bit of a backlash against products that use BPA since U.S. government scientists at the National Toxicology Program (NTP) voiced "some" concern about they synthetic material's possible effects, which they said could include accelerated female puberty, as well as having negative effects on the mammary and prostate glands

Early research suggests that children with a history of severe ear infections or tonsil trouble are at an increased risk of becoming overweight later in life.

Children who get recurrent otitis media suffer damage to the nerves controlling taste and such infections may affect food choices, the researchers said at the 116th annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Boston