After suffering a total of five heart attacks in his lifetime, Dick Cheney received a heart transplant at the age of 71. Jeff Glor spoke with CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook on what the surgery could mean for the former vice president's health
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One of the most influential voices of my childhood, and the childhoods of countless others raised alongside that omnipresent mouse, has died at the age of 86.
Read More »Video: Davy Jones: Monkees star dead at 66
Davy Jones, once a teen hearth-throb during the 1960's as the lead singer of the pop group "The Monkees," has died in Florida at the age of 66. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Read More »Video: Leslie Carter dead at 25
Leslie Carter, the sister of The Backstreet Boy's Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter, died on Tuesday at the age of 25. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Read More »Video: Leslie Carter dead at 25
Leslie Carter, the sister of The Backstreet Boy's Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter, died on Tuesday at the age of 25. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Read More »Video: Leslie Carter dead at 25
Leslie Carter, the sister of The Backstreet Boy's Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter, died on Tuesday at the age of 25. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Read More »Video: "Welcome Back Kotter" star dies at 60
Robert Hegyes, an actor best known for his role as Juan Epstein on the 1970s hit sitcom "Welcome Back Kotter," died in New Jersey at the age of 60. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports
Read More »Video: Kids under 2 shouldn’t watch TV at all: study
A study by the American Academy of Pediatrics found that children under the age of two shouldn't be watching any television at all.
Read More »California bans use of tanning beds by minors
Minors in the state of California will no longer be allowed to use tanning beds after Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices.
Read More »The Puzzle of Pancreatic Cancer: How Steve Jobs Did Not Beat the Oddsbut Nobel Winner Ralph Steinman Did
Steve Jobs was a rare case, right down to his death. Announced Wednesday, Jobs's death from "complications of pancreatic cancer" only hints at the vast complexity of the disease to which he succumbed at the age of 56.
Read More »Video: Study: No link between teen cell phones, cancer
A study of users under the age of 20 found no link between cell phone use and an increased risk for brain cancer.
Read More »Mental Math in Infants
Most children start counting after the age of two, after observing much tallying done by parents, siblings and television characters. [More]
Read More »Video: Dr. Jack Kevorkian, 1928-2011
Dr. Jack Kervorkian died at a hospital in Michigan at the age of 83.
Read More »Schizophrenia ‘in a Dish’
By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine Before committing suicide at the age of 22, an anonymous man with schizophrenia donated a biopsy of his skin cells to research. [More]
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