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ARMONK, N.Y. (AP) -- John DeFazio won't miss the 2 a.m. conference calls. Along with colleagues in IBM Corp.'s huge technology services division, DeFazio used to be summoned to the phone whenever a client's computing center hiccuped in the middle of the night. Because of the way IBM handled trouble reports, sometimes 20 different experts - a server specialist, a database guru, a networking maven, etc. - got paged to join a conference call. Once everyone finally dialed in and the problem was ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Grandma stuffing money under the mattress isn't the only one living outside the banking system. As many as 28 million people in the United States are forgoing traditional financial institutions because of mistrust, cultural and language barriers or a belief that by the time all the bills are paid there will be nothing left for an account. That can be expensive and risky. People can run up big fees to cash checks, pay bills and meet their other financial needs. Walking arou...

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More than 800 of them have lost an arm, a leg, fingers or toes. More than 100 are blind. Dozens need tubes and machines to keep them alive. Hundreds are disfigured by burns, and thousands have brain injuries and mangled minds. These are America's war wounded, a toll that has received less attention than the 3,500 troops killed in Iraq. Depending on how you count them, they number between 35,000 and 53,000. More of them are coming home, with injuries of a scope and magnitude the government did no...

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SATURDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- The type of sugar in a sugary drink may impact how healthy -- or unhealthy -- it is for arteries, a new study suggests.

Fructose-sweetened drinks are more likely to provoke the development of fatty artery deposits in overweight adults than glucose-sweetened beverages, researchers say.

Kimber Stanhope, of the University of California at Davis, and colleagues compared the results of drinking fructose-sweetened beverages versus glucose for 10 weeks in overweight and obese adults.

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RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) -- It was Adrianna's day to go shopping at the mall, and her mom was looking forward to it. Mother and daughter alone together. Just three weeks before, Rachel Clemens' own mother had died after a long illness and in the past week she'd organized her son Andrew's seventh birthday party. She and her husband, David, had taken Adrianna and Andrew bowling with his friends and a couple of them had spent the night. The next day, Oct. 9, 2004, a Saturday, would be Adrianna's ...

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