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JACOB BENNETT, Scripps Howard News ServiceZoo won't allow seeing what monkeys doEVANSVILLE, Ind. -- No jokes, please, about monkey business, because the fate of an entire species could hang in the balance.Ivy Tech Community College professor Sue Donaldson and six student volunteers want after-hours admission into an Evansville area zoo to observe the mating habits of the rare Francois langur monkey  |
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A seven-month investigation into federal mortality records reveals hundreds of thousands of death certificates filed every year in the United States are wrong, meaning we don't really know what's killing Americans.
A first-of-its-kind study also found that younger, well-educated and wealthy people are more likely to be autopsied when they die. More men than women are autopsied. And blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans are more likely to be autopsied than whites.
Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactively tainted metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world. But because of haphazard screening, an absence of oversight, and substantial disincentives for businesses to report contamination, no one knows how many tainted goods are in circulation.
A special report by Scripps Howard News Service finds as many as one in five Americans does not have a family doctor. And this translates directly to higher rates of illness and death and higher costs.
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