Health/Science

At work, Margaret Pericak-Vance and Jeffery Vance are world-famous husband-and-wife researchers who are unlocking the genetic keys to Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, macular degeneration, muscular dystrophy, autism and a dozen other disorders. At home, they’re […] […]

For almost six decades, Simeon Peterson – or Mr Pete as he likes to be known – has called the National Leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana, home. He is one of the 6,500 people in the […] […]

MONTEGO BAY, St James — A lesser woman would have probably buckled under the pressue long ago. However after 19 years of caring for her blind, bed-ridden teenage son, Dawn Shaw has learned a thing […] […]

A “vaccine” which harnesses the body’s own immune system to fight prostate cancer has been approved for use by US drug regulators. Provenge – which is designed to be used in men with advanced disease […] […]

Studying chilli peppers is helping scientists create a new type of painkiller which could stop pain at its source. A team at the University of Texas says a substance similar to capsaicin, which makes chilli […] […]

Rising rates of obesity among young Americans could undermine the future of the US military, two retired generals have warned. More than a quarter of young Americans are now too fat to fight, they said. […] […]

A complete spontaneous abortion at about six weeks from conception, i.e. eight weeks from LMP Rome, Italy — Italian officials are investigating reports that an infant survived an abortion, living for “a whole day” after […] […]

Mary Alice Carr [right] is vice president for communications at the National Institute for Reproductive Health As a reproductive rights advocate and a proud mother of two, my blood ran cold as I read about […] […]

President Obama’s recent proposal to open some areas along the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic coastline and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling elicited praise from drilling advocates and […] […]

Amanda Flowers Wii (VIDEO, PHOTO) Nympho Claims – Wii Fit may have a new marketing scheme.  Ok, not really but one woman’s injury from falling off her Wii Fit board has many scratching their heads. A […] […]