Dr. David Agus, author of New York Times best-seller "The End of Illness" says prevention is key to avoiding disease
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A five-time entrepreneur makes the case for launching a company in Silicon Beach.
Read More »Maine girl home after 6-organ transplant
Alannah Shevenell, 9, needed new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, esophagus after all were squashed by tumor
Read More »Video: Can you live to 100?
Doctor and author David Agus feels too many people die from cancer when there are ways to prevent it from hitting. He talks to Gayle King and Charlie Rose about prevention methods.
Read More »Video: New findings on behavior of Alzheimer’s
Two new studies find that Alzheimer's disease seems to spread from cell to cell like an infection. Dr. Karen Duff speaks with Charlie Rose and Gayle King about these new findings.
Read More »Are You a Sales Star? It Depends
The ability to sell at the highest level is the result of genetics. But this doesn't mean you can't be a sales star. I recently had a conversation with John Asher, the CEO of the sales training firm Asher Training , where he cited research that at least 50 percent of success in sales is directly related to natural talent.
Read More »Are You a Sales Star? It Depends
The ability to sell at the highest level is the result of genetics. But this doesn't mean you can't be a sales star
Read More »Video: Discovery may lead to Alzheimer’s treatments
Researchers have found a new clue in the way Alzheimer's disease may spread in the brain. Jim Axelrod reports on how this discovery could lead to new treatments to try and stop it.
Read More »Could an Infection Cause Tourette’s-Like Symptoms in Teenage Girls?
Over the weekend Erin Brockovich made the news yet again as she and her nonprofit team descended on the village of Le Roy, N.Y., determined to test for environmental toxins that might be giving the town's teenagers symptoms of Tourette's syndrome. She has reportedly been stonewalled thus far by local officials, who have already ruled out toxins as the cause of last October's sudden outbreak of tics and involuntary movements in 12 girls who attend Le Roy Junior–Senior High School. An environmental testing company surveyed the air and water and found nothing amiss, and a local neurologist concluded upon examining the girls that they had "conversion disorder," a catchall moniker for physical symptoms that originate in the mind because of stress, trauma or even mass hysteria
Read More »Survey: 75 percent of Americans admit to using phone while in bathroom
Marketing company 11Mark asked 1,000 Americans about their bathroom and mobile phone habits
Read More »Taco Bell tied to 2011 salmonella outbreak that sickened 68: Report
CDC would not disclose outbreak's source; Oklahoma health officials provided documentation to confirm report
Read More »Apple Looks Abroad To Spruce Up Its Exec Team
Is Apple going on an overseas talent shopping spree? The company's just hired Robin Burrowes to head up marketing for the iTunes App Store in Europe
Read More »Apple Looks Abroad To Spruce Up Its Exec Team
Is Apple going on an overseas talent shopping spree?
Read More »Professor David Oliver documents cancer battle in online videos
After diagnosed with nasal pharyngeal carcinoma, 69-year-old professor decides to teach through "social support" videos
Read More »How to Cash Out Sooner
I've seen founders get an early share of the upside using this strategy--without putting their companies in danger or angering their investors.
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