Find out how to prevent Colon Cancer now. ...more

March 4, 2009

Bacteria can cause potentially fatal infections that can spread along the bloodstream and attack organs such the lungs or bladder. With bacteria increasingly showing resistance to standard antibiotic drugs, this is a growing, if somewhat under-reported, human health risk. ...more

November 19, 2008

FBI scientists early on had - but destroyed - the unique strain of anthrax used in the deadly 2001 attacks that years later would lead them to Bruce Ivins, the government's top suspect in the nation's biggest bioterror case. ...more

August 19, 2008

Researchers in the Netherlands have developed a drug that eventually may be used to treat children with a severe and fatal type of muscular dystrophy. ...more

December 30, 2007