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In America, there are four times as many cancer survivors as there were 40 years ago.

Recent statistics show sharp regional differences in driving while impaired

Epidemic called one of largest in continent's history, and heavy rainfall may make additional cases likely

Credit: IStockphoto I knew I wasn’t like the other kids. Oh sure, I collected baseball cards and model airplanes, but not with the passion that I saved for my real obsession--collecting each and every element of the periodic table .

Prevention program in six Indian states with highest HIV rates believed to have made significant dent in epidemic

Thirty-three percent of women who experienced more than 15 RLS episodes each month had high blood pressure

Swedish study shows that stroke is significantly less common in women who eat lots of chocolate

The U.S. notoriously lags other countries when it comes to Internet speed. One recent report from Web analyst Akamai Technologies puts us in 14th place, far behind front-runner South Korea and also trailing Hong Kong, Japan and Romania, among other countries.

Susan starts her day by jogging to the edge of town, cutting back through a cornfield for an herbal tea at the downtown Starbucks and heading home for a shower. It sounds like a healthy morning routine, but Susan is in fact exposing herself to a rogue’s gallery of chemicals: pesticides and herbicides on the corn, plasticizers in her tea cup, and the wide array of ingredients used to perfume her soap and enhance the performance of her shampoo and moisturizer. Most of these exposures are so low as to be considered trivial, but they are not trivial at all--especially considering that Susan is six weeks pregnant.

Parents never want their tots to learn to fumble over words, but they need not worry about their own “uhs” and “ums”--

New research has found a link between dietary supplements and a slightly increased risk of death in older women. Erica Hill and Chris Wragge talk to CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton.

Study finds 2.4% increased risk of death associated with iron, Vitamin B-6, magnesium, others, but no direct cause-and-effect

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from a chapter in Nathan Wolfe's new book: The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age (published October 11 by Times Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Copyright

Successful startup hires all share a certain set of qualities. You'll likely not find them on a resume, and traditional interview questions won’t uncover them.

In high school, my mother occasionally found babysitting jobs for me. Parents, desperate for a trustworthy kid to watch their own, would entrust their offspring to Katie the honors student while they went to a meeting, or to work, or perhaps on a date. If any of those parents are reading, I have a confession for you: I didn't like watching your kids