Jimmy Carl Black, the original drummer for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, passed away this past weekend

An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said.

Words convey more than concepts; they stir up our feelings and direct our thoughts. Racial and religious epithets have started riots, and calling the police officer who pulls your speeding car over "Sir" is a smart way for you to start the conversation.

PARIS (AFP) -- A strategic tack in the quarter-century-old effort to devise an AIDS vaccine, which last year became darkly clouded by problems, could be more promising than thought, according to a study published on Sunday

Mark S. George, M.D. (Great Neck, NY - October 20, 2008) -- Patients suffering from treatment-resistant clinical depression will soon have access to a new, non-invasive method of treatment using a technique called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

An anti-animal research extremist has been found in contempt of court for violating an injunction prohibiting the harassment of UCLA personnel. Pamelyn Ferdin, a well-known activist, violated the injunction by distributing fliers that included UCLA

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) -- The Kootenai River white sturgeon is one of the most intriguing, and some would say bizarre, fish in North America, with a history that extends beyond multiple ice ages.

Yesterday, the American people chose Barack Obama as the country's 44th president, promising a sea change in US policy that could affect not just the US, but the whole world

We urge the federal government to increase support for prematurity-related research and data collection as recommended by the Institute of Medicine and the Surgeon General's Conference on the Prevention of Preterm Birth, to:

A new study reveals an important and newly discovered pathway used by disease-causing bacteria to evade the host immune system and survive and grow within the very cells meant to destroy them. This discovery may lead to new treatments and vaccines