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Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries - signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
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In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44.
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Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93.
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Six people went to local hospitals Sunday after exposure to an unknown material at a McDonald's restaurant in Knightdale.
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As if the Taliban, car bombs, roadside bombs, leftover Soviet land mines, political unrest and errant NATO air attacks weren't enough, Afghans are facing a new killer: the H1N1 flu pandemic.
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The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.
Modified: 11/09/09 11:55:09 AM
Democrats realize that the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.
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An eye-opening lesson has unfolded for a group of students who set about mapping where to buy healthful food in their community.
Modified: 11/08/09 04:32:22 AM
A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.
Modified: 11/08/09 02:24:27 AM
A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later.
Modified: 11/07/09 08:33:08 AM
In a famous 1993 speech, cancer-stricken former N.C. State basketball coach Jimmy Valvano launched his research foundation with a plea for money that he said might not save his own life, but might save his children's lives.
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As Congress weighs options for cutting some of the $2.2 trillion Americans spend on doctors, surgeries, treatments and drugs, some solutions may be as simple as a phone call.
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A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space - an idea spurred by science fiction novels.
Modified: 11/07/09 08:58:11 AM
After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world's rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenhagen.
Modified: 11/06/09 05:28:45 PM
In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy corporations or healthy people who don't really need it.
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Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll released Friday.
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The largest delivery yet of H1N1 vaccine to Wake County will enable area health clinics to run five vaccination programs starting Monday.
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The national president of the NAACP said Thursday that too many North Carolina residents lack health insurance for people on Capitol Hill to delay passage of a health care overhaul bill until 2010.
Modified: 11/05/09 11:35:15 PM
At Duke University, a school that likes to tout its cutting-edge research, a sex toy study being conducted by a behavioral economist and student health workers has roused criticism.
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French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene.
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