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Whether surgeons slice with a traditional scalpel or cut away with a surgical laser, most medical operations end up removing some healthy tissue, along with the bad. This means that for delicate areas like the brain, throat, and digestive tract, physicians and patients have to balance the benefits of treatment against possible collateral damage.

Do business in China? Here's what you need to know to plan ahead, avoid delays, and prevent other unanticipated holiday hiccups

Want to know which of your employees are doing a bang-up job, and which are falling down on it? Take a few calls from irate customers.

The FDA is withdrawing the preliminary approval it granted in 2008 to use the popular drug Avastin for breast cancer because further research found it caused serious side effects, including death. Dr

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union nations must nearly double investment in power grid building in the decade after 2020 if it is to get on the path to carbon-free electricity by the middle of the century, think-tank the European Climate Foundation (ECF) said on Monday. The European Commission raised the goal of virtually emissions-free electricity in its 2050 road map toward a low carbon economy, published earlier this year, as the means to achieve an 80-95 percent cut in carbon scientists say is needed by then to stave off the worst effects of global warming. [More]

A new law in California would make it legal for Chevy Volts to use parking spots equipped with electric chargers. But does the law actually make it harder for electric car owners

The "disease of kings" has now reached the masses. In the past half century the prevalence of gout in the general U.S. population has more than doubled.

And it has made close to $6 billion in revenue from app sales.

The screening for a painful fatal disease in newborns may be cheap, but its treatment is dangerous and expensive with no guarantee of a cure. As Sanjay Gupta reports, this means many states won't test newborns for the disease.

An international group of scientists has classified cell phones as "possibly carcinogenic to humans." Dr. Jon LaPook reports that this means that there may be an increased risk, but the study is not conclusive.

Have you ever had the experience of buying a deal from Groupon or LivingSocial, getting to the merchant (a restaurant, let's say), and awkwardly giving the server a crumpled piece of paper to prove that you deserve $20 worth of food for just $10?

Attic pottery is the iconic red and black figure-pottery produced in ancient Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries B.C. Like the vessel shown above from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, such pottery required immense precision to produce, and the means by which craftsman created these vessels is still not completely understood.