Heart Attack Risk Soars After Loved One Dies The risk of heart attack goes way up in the hours and days after the death of a loved on, according to ne...
Social Media Tracks Haiti's Cholera Epidemic Public health systems may be losing their monopoly on data about outbreaks of disease. Researchers at Har...
Pills Offer New Hope in Fight Against Yaws Scientists have found that a medicine taken in pill form is just as effective in treating the neglected tro...
China Exports Fall to Two-Year Lows Sales of Chinese-made goods overseas have been one of the biggest drivers of China's phenomenal growth. But new da...
ICRC Suspends Food Aid to 1.1 Million Somalis In mid-December, authorities in Jowhar, in the Middle Shabelle region of central Somalia, stopped a Red ...
Bikeshare Program Makes Cycling Lifestyle Easy This is one of the many Bikeshare locations in southeast Washington. Renting a bike is as easy as 1.2.3...
US Chamber Says Business-Friendly Policies Needed to Grow Economy Las Vegas. Bright lights, mega casinos and, for a few days, home to some of the most...
MLK Holiday Celebrates Late Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s rise as a civil rights leader began in 1955 when he spearheaded the drive to ...
Guantanamos 10th Anniversary Marked by Protests Hundreds of demonstrators marched in a cold rain along Pennsylvania Avenue. They were led by protester...
Indian Mobile Phone App Aims to Thwart Sexual Assaults Cheena Sikka is typical of the modern, professional Indian woman. She works hard. She works lat...
