Obama takes satirical hit to chin to sell health care
US President Barack Obama is trying a new strategy in his struggle to sell his stumbling health care law—self parody.
Mar 11, 2014
Archive: 11/03/2014
Misery mounts in drought-hit southeast Pakistan (Update)
Two-month-old Mangal succumbed to pneumonia on Tuesday in Mithi, southeast Pakistan, the latest victim of a deadly web of drought, disease and malnutrition in one of the country's most deprived regions.
Mar 11, 2014
Cancer cells don't take 'drunken' walks through the body
Because of results seen in flat lab dishes, biologists have believed that cancers cells move through the body in a slow, aimless fashion, resembling an intoxicated person who cannot walk three steps in a straight line. This ...
Mar 11, 2014
Poison Centers benefit patients, reduce medical costs, study finds
Patients who received help from a poison center had shorter hospital stays and lower hospital charges among those who are the most expensive to treat, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Illinois ...
Mar 11, 2014
New AGA/GCF research grant to fund exploration of the development of gastric cancer
The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Foundation and the Gastric Cancer Foundation (GCF) are pleased to announce that the first AGA–Gastric Cancer Foundation Research Scholar Award in Gastric and Esophageal ...
Mar 11, 2014
Study shows face matching for passports and IDs incredibly fallible
New research finds face matching, as when customs agents check passports, to be incredibly fallible, with error rates between 10 and 20 percent under ideal, laboratory-induced conditions, and much worse in more realistic ...
Mar 11, 2014
