As many as 35 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia among adults over 60 years of age. That figure could reach 115 million by 2050 , concludes the nonprofit Alzheimer's Disease International .
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As many as 35 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia among adults over 60 years of age.
Read More »Rice Seed Yields Blood Protein
By Lauren Gravitz of Nature magazine One can't squeeze blood from a turnip, but new research suggests that a bit of transgenic tweaking may make it possible to squeeze blood--or at least blood protein--from a grain of rice.
Read More »Rice Seed Yields Blood Protein
By Lauren Gravitz of Nature magazine One can't squeeze blood from a turnip, but new research suggests that a bit of transgenic tweaking may make it possible to squeeze blood--or at least blood protein--from a grain of rice. [More]
Read More »Conjoined twins to be separated in Calif. (pictures)
Two-year-old Angelica and Angelina Sabuco facing lengthy surgery at Stanford University Lucile Packard's Children's Hospital
Read More »How Europe’s CO2 Cap and Trade Means Georgia Jobs
WAYCROSS, Ga.--Pawn shops, diners, churches and pine trees. Hundreds of thousands of pine trees.
Read More »How Europe’s CO2 Cap and Trade Means Georgia Jobs
WAYCROSS, Ga.--Pawn shops, diners, churches and pine trees. Hundreds of thousands of pine trees. [More]
Read More »Medical marijuana? Montel Williams impressed by Israeli approach
TV celebrity, who uses cannibis to relieve pain from multiple sclerosis, pushing wider availability of medical marijuana
Read More »Drilling Ship to Probe Fault Zone that Caused Fukushima Quake
After being tossed about and damaged by the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, Japan's drilling ship the Chikyu has been given an especially fitting assignment: to drill into the fault zone and take temperature measurements near the epicentre of the magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake that caused the tsunami. It will be the first time that researchers have drilled into an underwater fault soon after a quake.
Read More »$300,000 t-shirt? UN fights famine with fashion
New York artists team up with UNICEF to sell shirts that raise money for famine relief in Africa
Read More »Hidden Drivers of Childhood Obesity Operate Behind the Scenes
Anxiety around children's eating habits often peaks during sweets-laden holidays like Halloween, but the factors that contribute to excess weight in kids extend well beyond special occasions. Most children who are obese--now 17 percent in the U.S.--will carry that extra heft into adulthood, along with the long-term health consequences
Read More »Hidden Drivers of Childhood Obesity Operate Behind the Scenes
Anxiety around children's eating habits often peaks during sweets-laden holidays like Halloween, but the factors that contribute to excess weight in kids extend well beyond special occasions.
Read More »Hidden Drivers of Childhood Obesity Operate Behind the Scenes
Anxiety around children's eating habits often peaks during sweets-laden holidays like Halloween, but the factors that contribute to excess weight in kids extend well beyond special occasions. Most children who are obese--now 17 percent in the U.S.--will carry that extra heft into adulthood, along with the long-term health consequences
Read More »Herman Cain says ad not meant to push smoking
Republican hopeful and cancer survivor Cain says Internet video intended only to "let people be people"
Read More »Be Afraid, but Not Too Afraid
It’s time to get scared. Nightmare On Elm Street, Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre will be airing on TVs through to midnight tonight, Halloween.
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