NEW YORK - "The Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith is scheduled to have a colonoscopy Wednesday, with live reports planned as he undergoes the procedure at a New York hospital.

CBS says it will be the first time an anchor has had a colonoscopy live on network television.

"CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric plans to be with Smith as he prepares for the procedure.

Smith and Couric are recognizing National Colorectal Cancer Awareness month. Couric has been an advocate for early cancer screenings since her husband, TV legal analyst Jay ...

LINCOLN, Neb. - Nature's Variety has expanded its recall of chicken-flavored pet food because of concerns over salmonella.

The Lincoln, Neb.-based company said Monday that the raw, frozen food is being recalled because it could be contaminated with salmonella.

The recall includes three-pound packages of chicken medallions, six-pound packages of chicken patties and two-pound packages of chicken chubs.

Initially, the company recalled only packages with a best-by date of Nov. 10, 2010. Now packages with best-by dates of Oct. 29 and Nov. ...

African-Americans are twice as likely as Caucasians to have Alzheimer’s and related memory-robbing diseases, and Hispanics, the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, are 1.5 times as likely, according to a new report released this morning by the Alzheimer’s Association.

The higher risk is likely linked to factors like high blood pressure and diabetes, which are risk factors for dementia and more common among those minority groups than among Caucasians.

Yet, African-Americans and Hispanics are less likely to b...

Reformist ex-president Mohammad Khatami, seen here in 2008. A close aide to Khatami denied to AFP a media report that he had been banned from travelling outside the Islamic republic.

AFP - A close aide to Iran's reformist former president Mohammad Khatami denied to AFP on Tuesday a media report that he had been banned from travelling outside the Islamic republic.

Iran's Fars news agency reported that the cleric, a key supporter of the opposition movement, had been banned from international travel. It quote...

Newly-arrived Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia are seen in Israel's Ben Gurion airport, January 2010. Ethiopia's dwindling Jewish community, known as the Falash Mura, on Tuesday said their living conditions at home were desperate and appealed on Israel to keep its pledge to welcome them.

AFP - Ethiopia's dwindling Jewish community, known as the Falash Mura, on Tuesday said their living conditions at home were desperate and appealed on Israel to keep its pledge to welcome them.

"We are suffering, p...

WESTMORELAND, N.H. - Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day.

Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died Sunday at age 114 years, 294 days. Her granddaughter Katherine Ray said she died at a nursing home in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, but was active until about two weeks before her death.

"She just enjoyed life. She never thought of dying at all," Katherine Ray said. "She was planning for her birthday party."

Ray died just hours before Daisey Bailey, who was ...

It freshens our breath and helps us quit smoking, but some cosmetic surgeons believe chewing gum does one more thing: It gives us wrinkles.

“Many of my patients who are gum chewers have a certain pattern of wrinkles around their mouth,” says Dr. Joel Schlessinger, a board certified dermatologist and cosmetic surgeon from Omaha, Neb. “And I think the gum is responsible to some degree for it.”

While no studies have been done showing a link between chewing gum and wrinkles, the topic does come up with some regularly on beauty blogs.

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President Obama was back on the campaign trail Monday, using his election-style oratory to stump for a health-care overhaul that still awaits an uncertain fate in Congress.

As is the case routinely these days, the president took aim at health insurers. He lambasted them 22 times in a speech to a college audience near Philadelphia, according to the Washington Post. “How much higher do premiums have to rise until we do something about it,” Obama said in the speech punchline.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday also...

Cyprus' late former president Tassos Papadopoulos, seen in 2007 at the presidential palace in Nicosia. Papadopoulos' body has been found three months after a grave robbery, Cyprus police have said, following a tip-off call in "broken Greek" amid reports of a ransom demand.

Forensic experts inspect the dug-out grave of former Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos in the village of Deftera on the outskirts of Nicosia on December 11. The body of ex-president Tassos Papadopoulos was found three m...

Chances have been good that Sanofi-Aventis and Merck would re-establish their animal-health joint venture, as company officials have been more than hinting for months. Today, the reunion plans became official.

The combined business would be the largest seller of animal drugs and vaccines in the world, the companies said, although the deal still will have to pass muster with antitrust watchdogs. Here’s more from Dow Jones Newswires and Reuters.

Of course it was because of antitrust reasons that the companies had to break up t...

File photo shows crew members of the Italian team (right) and New Zealand squad competing at the Louis Vuitton Trophy final off the south coast of France in November 2009. Host nation Team New Zealand convincingly beat Swedish syndicate Artemis on their home waters in Auckland, the opening day of the Louis Vuitton Trophy yachting regatta.

AFP - Hosts Team New Zealand convincingly beat Swedish syndicate Artemis on their home waters in Auckland Tuesday, the opening day of the Louis Vuitton Trophy yachting regat...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pictured, is to head to Afghanistan on Wednesday, his first trip to Tehran's eastern neighbour since the re-election last August of his counterpart Hamid Karzai.

AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to head to Afghanistan on Wednesday, his first trip to Tehran's eastern neighbour since the re-election last August of his counterpart Hamid Karzai.

"The president is going on Wednesday" to Afghanistan, foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told repo...