Although President Obama is still tight-lipped about whom he will choose to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, the public is getting a little glimpse of his thinking. The Associated Press is reporting that among those being considered for the nation’s highest court are at least five women and two Hispanics. Who are they? Read more

Voters are most worried about long lines. More than one in three BET.com users say that they worried about long lines on Election Day, while one in four fear they will discover that they are not registered.  Get all the results from our election poll here.

Time is ticking away for candidates. With only 48 hours remaining in the race for the White House, the battleground state of Ohio has seen both presidential candidates come to state their case and deliver their argument on why undecided voters should do more than “lean” their way: They want their vote. Get more at Pamela on Politics.

Diabetics have another worry: cholesterol. LDL cholesterol that’s either too high or two low signals an increase cancer risk in people with type 2 diabetes, a Chinese study shows.  Researchers studied 6,107 diabetes patients, none of whom was taking cholesterol-lowering statins. The researchers found that LDL levels below 2.80 mmol/L were associated with an increased risk of cancers of the digestive organs and peritoneum, genital and urinary organs, and lymphatic and blood tissues. LDL levels above 3.80 mmol/L were associated with increased risk of oral, digestive, bone, skin, connective tissue and breast cancers. The findings suggest “the use of these levels as risk markers may help clinicians to assess their patients more fully and thus to prevent premature deaths in patients who have high risk,” wrote the team from the Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. However, factors such as lifestyle, socioeconomic status and indication for use of statins need to be considered when examining the association between LDL levels and cancer risk, Drs. Frank Hu and Eric Ding of the Harvard School of Public Health, wrote in an accompanying commentary. The study was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Most female sports injuries come from cheerleading.

Over the past 25 years, cheerleading accounted for two-thirds of all catastrophic sports injuries experienced by high school and college females in the United States, HealthDay News reports. This is a much higher proportion than previously thought, a new report says. Cheerleading accounted for 65.1 percent of female high school athlete injuries and for 66.7 percent of female college athlete injuries, according to this year’s report from the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was previously believed that cheerleading accounted for 55 percent of injuries among high school females and 59.4 percent of injuries among college females. But the percentages increased when new data was used for this year’s report. Center Director Frederick O. Mueller, a professor of exercise and sports science who’s authored the annual report since it began in 1982, said catastrophic injuries to female athletes have increased over the years. “A major factor has been the change in cheerleading activity, which now involves gymnastic-type stunts,” he said in a university press release. “If these cheerleading activities are not taught by a competent coach and keep increasing in difficulty, catastrophic injuries will continue to be a part of cheerleading.” Between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes. The vast majority of those (67) occurred in cheerleading, followed by nine in gymnastics and seven in track.

HIV/AIDS groups to candidates: Where’s Your National HIV/AIDS Plan? Vital Signs: HIV/AIDS groups are concerned that as Black HIV/AIDS numbers grow, little attention is being given the deadly disease from the folks who want to run the country. Vital Signs tells you what they say the candidates must do to win their support.