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The FDA has approved Viagra’s active ingredient to treat pulmonary hypertension, a rare, life-shortening lung disorder that causes high blood pressure in the lungs. Viagra’s maker, Pfizer, a WebMD sponsor, announced the approval in a news release. Pfizer will repackage Viagra’s key ingredient (sildenafil) and market it as Revatio. Revatio …

WICHITA, Kan. – A former ordinance enforcement officer’s matter-of-fact confession that he is the serial killer who haunted this city for decades may have brought closure to some — but not to Charlie Otero. Otero, whose two siblings and parents were Dennis Rader’s (search) first victims in 1974, said the …

The mystery over the identity of Deep Throat (search) is over but one question remains: Was the former FBI executive who spilled Watergate’s secrets to The Washington Post a hero? W. Mark Felt’s family said they considered the 91-year-old to be a “great American hero” and the two Post reporters …

Women who develop diabetes during pregnancy give birth to healthier babies if they are aggressively treated, concludes a large new study that helps bolster the case for testing all pregnant women for this condition. The study, by Australian researchers, is the first to show that treatment can help avoid serious …

WASHINGTON – Sen. Dick Durbin (search) went to the Senate floor late Tuesday to offer his apologies to anyone who may have been offended by his comparison of treatment of detainees at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Cambodia’s Pol Pot. “More than …

WASHINGTON – Two Republican and two Democratic representatives pushed a non-binding resolution on Thursday that would require an Iraq exit strategy by the end of this year with implementation beginning by October 2006. “After 1,700 deaths, over 12,000 wounded and $200 billion spent, we believe it is time to have …

NEW YORK – In one week, New Yorkers throw out enough garbage to equal the weight of the Empire State Building, and there’s a battle brewing in City Hall to change the way the city gets rid of it. Each day, 50,000 tons of trash are hauled through the streets …

VAKARAI, Sri Lanka – Along India’s tsunami-battered eastern shore, fisherman Ravi Shankar burned incense sticks before a coconut sapling named after his niece, one of 207 trees planted and named in memory of children who died on this spot six months ago. Later on Sunday, about 1,000 children from India’s …

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” June 6, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the “Radio Factor!” BILL O’REILLY, HOST: In the “Personal Story” segment tonight, both Newt Gingrich and Hillary …

WASHINGTON – The top U.S. disaster official waited hours after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast before he proposed to his boss sending at least 1,000 Homeland Security workers into the region to support rescuers, internal documents show. Part of the mission, according to the documents obtained by The Associated …