The father of an 18-year old schizophrenic mentally retarded girl raped by a nursing home resident is battling for legislation that would mandate posting the names of residents with sex offense records.

Ray McDaniel pushed for the bill, which has been adopted by the Ohio House and is waiting for a Senate hearing. He supports every state requiring its staff to disclose the presence of sex offenders among residents. He hopes this would prevent a repeat of what happened to his daughter, who was abused by a 43-year old male resident, now serving time in prison

World-renowned heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey died of natural causes late Friday, according to the DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center at Methodist Hospital in Houston. He was 99.

In a career spanning more than 70 years ago, DeBakey performed more than 60,000 heart surgeries. His patients include late American presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, the last Shah of Iran and King Hussein of Jordan

A new study shows that a man's fertility starts to fall in his mid 30s and it could also be considered a factor in determining the reason for failed conception in couples who are trying to conceive.

Researchers from Paris studied more than 12,000 couples undergoing fertility treatments and the results revealed that pregnancy rates drop and miscarriages increase when the father is older than 40. The findings are being presented Monday at the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Barcelona, Spain

A transgender man who surprised the world in April by revealing he was pregnant gave birth Sunday to a baby girl at a hospital here.

Thomas Beatie, 34, who switched gender from woman to man, delivered his baby at the St. Charles Medical Center. He gave birth naturally. The father has already left the hospital with his baby, who was conceived through artificial insemination using sperm from a donor

- A brain-eating amoeba is being blamed for the death of six boys and young men in Florida, Arizona, and Texas.

The Center for Disease Control said Friday that primary amebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM, is the cause of the 2007 deaths. The amoeba, called Naegleria fowleri, is the culprit of the condition and is found in warm water such as lakes, hot springs, ponds, and even dirty pools. It enters the body through the nose and attaches itself to the olfactory nerve, where it moves into the brain, feeding on brain cells