Life-saving 3-D airway printed for young boy

In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day. It is the latest advance from the booming field of ...

Science & Health May 24, 2013

Discovery points way to universal flu vaccine

A new type of flu vaccine developed at the U.S. National Institutes of Health outperformed existing products in animal tests, possibly paving the way for a new generation of vaccines. Researchers led by Gary Nabel, the former director of the Vaccine Research Center at ...

Science & Health May 22, 2013

Fear blamed for U.K. measles surge

More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least 1 million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the ...

Science & Health May 20, 2013

Latest setback for HIV vaccines creates a 'void'

The hunt for an HIV vaccine has gobbled up $8 billion in the past decade, and the failure of the most recent efficacy trial has delivered yet another setback to 26 years of efforts. With the next attempts expected to be years away, top ...

Science & Health May 14, 2013

French coronavirus case points to possible limited human-to-human spread

A novel coronavirus that has killed more than half of the 38 people it is known to have infected appears capable of limited human-to-human spread, the World Health Organization said Sunday. France reported a second case of the disease on Sunday. The patient, who ...

Science & Health May 13, 2013

Exoskeletons allowing handicapped to regain abilities

by Devin Powell

The first kick of the 2014 FIFA World Cup may be delivered in Sao Paulo next June by a Brazilian who is paralyzed from the waist down. If all goes according to plan, the teenager will walk onto the field, cock back a foot ...

Crime & Legal Apr 29, 2013

Takeda loses cancer suit over Actos

Takeda Pharmaceutical is told to pay $6.5 million to a man who sued Asia's largest drugmaker for failing to warn that its Actos diabetes drug could cause cancer.

Crime & Legal Apr 28, 2013

Takeda loses cancer suit over Actos

Takeda Pharmaceutical is told to pay $6.5 million to a man who sued Asia's largest drugmaker for failing to warn that its Actos diabetes drug could cause cancer.

Science & Health Apr 23, 2013

Swiss turning to traditional medicine healers to cure their ills

Denis Vipret moves around the circle of 20 people waiting for his healing touch, touching their shoulders and pumping his right hand lightly to transfer its energy to each patient. Vipret is a star among a soaring number of healers in Switzerland, and during ...

Science & Health Apr 22, 2013

Patent war erupts over cancer gene

Tracey Barraclough made a grim discovery in 1998. She found she possessed a gene that predisposed her to cancer. “I was told I had up to an 85 percent chance of developing breast cancer and up to 60 percent chance of developing ovarian cancer,” ...

Science & Health Apr 22, 2013

Plague draws scientists' attention as potential terrorism weapon

Isaac Baniyo stumbled through his final exam in English last November as a pounding headache and chest pain made it difficult for him to focus. Within days, his fever soared, and he was hacking up bloody mucus. The dead rats in his village should ...

Politics & Diplomacy Apr 18, 2013

House Republicans fault FDA in meningitis probe

After reviewing 27,000 pages of documents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Republicans and Democrats came to different conclusions about the agency’s ability to prevent one of the worst public health crises in American history. Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce ...