'Radical' surgery uses patient's tooth to restore her sight

CLICK HERE FOR MOREEVERY USA DAYDoctors in Miami announced Wednesday that they had performed a vision-restoring surgery that used the 60-year-old patient's tooth. The surgery, the first in the USA, was performed Labor Day weekend at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Afterward, patient Sharron Thornton was able to see for the first time in nine years. "Sharron was able to see 20/60 this morning. She was seeing only shadows a couple of weeks ago,"...

Addicts opens another front in Afghan war

CLICK HERE FOR MOREUSA TODAY KABUL —As soon as the social worker handed Khord Agha a clean needle, the 28-year-old heroin addict pulled out his packet of tinfoil and began searching for a vein. After jabbing unsuccessfully several times, he finally found a spot. His shoulders slumped as the drug coursed through his bloodstream, and Agha began talking about how he became one of the surging number of heroin addicts in Afghanistan. "It started when I was working for a family on their farm in Iran,"...

Obama scraps Bush missile-defense plan

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATIONUSA TODAYWASHINGTON — President Obama's foreign policy has employed a starkly different tone than George W. Bush's, emphasizing engagement and cooperation rather than go-it-alone confrontation. Even so, analysts of various political stripes hadn't seen many big differences on substance. Until now. Obama's decision Wednesday to scuttle a costly and technically challenged long-range missile-defense system in Europe marks his most significant reversal of a Bush foreign...

Crackdown on artifact crimes gets results

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