Study: Flu shot aids mothers, babies

MINNEAPOLIS - Pregnant women can protect their newborns against deadly influenza infections by getting a flu shot, a study found. The study of 340 women in Bangladesh found the shot slashed the number of proven cases of influenza by 63 percent in infants under 6 months, according to the report in the New England Journal of Medicine. (Bloomberg)

CHICAGO - The National Institute of Mental Health has dropped plans for a study of a controversial treatment for autism that critics had called an unethical experiment on children. The agency said the study of the treatment - called chelation - has been abandoned and decided the money would be better used testing other potential therapies for autism. (AP)

PRESIDIO - The US Border Patrol said yesterday that it found the wreckage of a small plane that disappeared two days earlier while carrying top US and Mexico officials on a mission to survey Rio Grande flooding. All four aboard died. (AP)

McLEAN - A land swap between the federal government and a Virginia county allows Arlington National Cemetery to remove a road that was an obstacle in its expansion plans so burials can continue through 2060. (AP)