Chewing gum after colon surgery can help shorten your hospital stay, a new British study suggests. The latest work published in Archives of Surgery says that chewing three sticks of sugarless gum a day helps improve recovery of intestinal function after all or part of the colon has been surgically removed may speed up the return of normal bowel function.

The "miracle" woman from Egypt, who gave birth to septuplets on Saturday, hopes to soon be able to hold her newborn babies, doctors said Sunday. The 27-year-old Ghazala Khamis delivered four boys and three girls, who are reported to be in stable condition, at the el-Shatbi hospital in the coastal Egyptian city of Alexandria on Saturday.

A Texas drugstore cowboy's efforts were thwarted Thursday after he robbed a pharmacy only to find he'd locked his keys in the get-away car. According to reports, John Wilkinson, 24, robbed the Stanton Drug Store with a caulking gun covered in a towel. He stole Xanax and Hydrocodine before leaving the store to discover his blunder. Then, he fled on foot.

Several New York City residents pitched in Thursday to lift a five-ton bus off a dying pregnant woman, saving her unborn baby in the process. New York City Police Department traffic agent Donnette Sanz, 33, was crossing a Bronx street when a van struck her, knocking her into the path of a 10,000-pound school bus. She was run over and pinned under the bus.

Two babies in neighboring states have created a history by being born at 8:08 a. m. on the eighth day of August, weighing in at 8 pounds, 8 ounces. Hailey Jo Hauer is born to Lindsay Hauer via cesarean section that was scheduled for 8 a. m. Friday morning at Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. According to doctors that is a "once in a million" case as this date will come only once in a hundred years.