MARYLAND: This is how Sheryl Crow got breast cancer. She was on the Ellen show and said so. Drinking bottled water that has been left in a car has been identified as the most common cause of the high levels in breast cancer, especially in Australia.

CHICAGO: The American Medical Association took a stand against two unhealthy habits - eating fat-filled foods and text-messaging while driving. At its semiannual policy meeting on November 10, the nation's largest physicians' group agreed to support any state and federal efforts to ban the use of artificial trans fats in US restaurants and bakeries.

NEW ORLEANS: Eighty-year-olds with clogged arteries or leaky heart valves used to be sent home with a pat on the arm from their doctors and pills to try to ease their symptoms. Now more are getting open-heart surgery, with remarkable survival rates rivaling those of much younger people, new studies show.

NEW YORK: In what could be a sign of America's changing spiritual composition, Mahima (a 39,000 square foot meditation center), is officially set to open its doors on November 8.

NEW YORK: The 17th Annual fundraiser for the AAPI Charitable Foundation held recently in Pittsburgh, PA, collected over $50,000 to help run free healthcare clinics in India.

MUMBAI: The healthcare industry in Mumbai that has been flourishing in the recent past has started experiencing some trouble owing to the economic recession in the US. Hospitals and clinics in Mumbai have become the preferred choice among people from different countries, especially NRIs in the US.

LOS ANGELES: Over 2,500 people from all walks of life participated in the Los Angeles Partnership Walk at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

SAN FRANCISCO: A federal judge has scolded California officials for failing to provide the billions of dollars a court-appointed receiver says is needed to upgrade the state's prison health care system.

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz: Some members of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe used to travel to Parker or Phoenix for certain eye exams.

Walking is now Maryland's state exercise. You have heard of official emblems like flower, bird or animal, but a state in the United States today took a healthy stride to "walk" into history.