BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. Today we tell about the latest research and treatments for Parkinsons disease. (MUSIC)BOB DOUGHTY: Parkinsons is a disease of the ce...
Baby oysters could be the canaries in the mine shaft for another dimension of global warming. Pacific Northwest scientists are studying how the oceans suck in excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The process changes seawater chemistry - locally...
A new study says developing countries will need between $400 million and $700 million over the next 20 years to battle HIV/AIDS. The findings appear in The Lancet medical journal. The estimates are being released at a time when overall funding for HI...
In July, a mentally ill woman decapitated her mother before committing suicide by jumping out of her apartment window. In June, a teenage boy stabbed his mother and sister to death. A month before that, a man with history of mental illness stabbed hi...
Lindsay Lohan (Bauer Griffin) Lindsay Lohan is currently undergoing a rehab treatment program at the Betty Ford Clinic in Los Angeles, and medics have reportedly cautioned her against keeping her mom Dina on as her manager. They've supposedly claimed...
Apnea Treatment Improves Golf Game A study presented at CHEST 2009, the meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, found that golfers with apnea who got treatment lowered their handicaps by as much as three strokes. Steve Mirsky reports The...
The goal of rapid HIV testing in emergency rooms is to save lives and prevent the spread of HIV. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommends routine HIV screening of patients admitted to hospital emergency rooms, unless the patient refuses or opt...
A new study of HIV-infected people in Haiti indicates that starting treatment early could save many patients who might otherwise die of AIDS. And starting anti-AIDS medicines earlier might also save money. The World Health Organization currently reco...
Mike O'Sullivan | Port-au-Prince 10 February 2010 Medical professionals aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) treat a six-year-old Haitian boy in the casualty receiving room aboard the 1,000-bed hospital ship. Hundr...
PHILLIPS: Forget the questions regarding the law just for a second and just think about the moral issue here. It may make your blood boil. A small baby at risk, her parents worried about her broken heart, but also faced with no way to pay for her lif...
