The Komen Foundation focuses its resources on developing treatments that increase the profitability of pharmaceutical companies. Unlike other organizations, they refused to sign on to the 2006 Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer and the Environment.

A residing project in West Mankato became a lesson in history...News 12's Erin Reed shows us how behind the layers of old siding a piece of the Wild West was found.

Most of the synthetic chemicals we live with--and some are so pervasive that they are now in the bodies of virtually all Americans--are under-tested and under-regulated.

WASHINGTON - Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in American veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries - signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

He is many things to many people. But to Crystal Nunn, an ordinary viewer of his programmes, Stephen Fry may have saved her life. She was astonished when he responded to her plea to help her through her depression.

BANGKOK - For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.

Even as China overtakes the U.S. in the dubious category of "world's leading greenhouse gas producer," it is also well ahead of the U.S. in developing the technologies and policies to solve the problem--and selling those solutions to us at massive profits

A New York man is donating his 320th pint (half-a-liter) of blood this week, making him one of two people in the U.S. who has given 40 gallons.

A while back I mentioned Solar Roadways, a clean-energy idea that appears kind of kooky, at least on the surface. (See what I did there?) The notion is to replace paved surfaces with rugged, specially built solar panels.

The problem with wind power--one of them, anyway--lies in the phrase "fickle as the wind." Ocean tides, by comparison, are a paragon of reliability. They come and go twice a day, like clockwork. Seasonally, they're strongest at the solstices in June and Dec