A man who's been patrolling a piece of the Rio Grande for 16 years -- usually on horseback -- isn't looking for drugs or illegal immigrants.

A food shortage has hit a remote Indian state after an army of rats began devouring rice crops, triggering a famine scare, officials said Friday.

As many as 10 people have died in western Afghanistan from a rare liver disease believed to be caused by contaminated wheat, officials said Saturday.

The current flu season has shaped up to be the worst in four years, partly because the vaccine didn't work well against the viruses that made most people sick, health officials said Thursday.

Commonly used incontinence drugs may cause memory problems in some older people, a study has found. "Our message is to be careful when using these medicines," said U.S. Navy neurologist Dr. Jack Tsao, who led the study. "It may be

Health officials are investigating more than 180 reports of illness in people who took dietary supplements containing toxic levels of the mineral selenium.

It turns out the golden years really are golden. Eye-opening new research finds the happiest Americans are the oldest, and older adults are more socially active than the stereotype of the lonely senior suggests. The two go hand-in-hand: Being social

University of Washington (UW) scientists and researchers have secured a $5.3 million, four-year grant from the Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) to support the translation of human genetic research into clinical medicine.

This two-day symposium April 23-24 will focus on the Personal Genome Project, which aims to publish the complete genomes and medical records of several volunteers to enable research into personalized medicine.

But Ms. Fowler, who grew up in Oakville, Ont., said the model who arrived had a 23-inch waist and was so tiny that she resembled a baby deer as she struck the exaggerated poses of high fashion. The resulting photographs

A mother has given birth to a rare set of quadruplets in which three of the four boys are identical. The boys were born 11 weeks premature in January at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson. The parents plan to

A Florida plastic surgeon has written about adult plastic surgery in "My Beautiful Mommy," a picture book that tries to calm the fears of kids with parents getting tummy tucks, breast enhancement procedures and nose jobs.

Clinical trials are underway to test if an electrical implant can effectively help obese people curb their appetite.

A University of Chicago sociologist a certain amount of distress in old age is inevitable, including aches, pains and deaths of loved ones and friends. But older people generally have learned to be more content with what they have than

The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a global professional association that is advancing the science of strategic talent management, and Jobs2Web, an interactive recruiting partner that helps its clients maximize their contacts with interactive job seekers, announced today that Jobs2Web is

An affordable way for physicians to respond to demands for fact-based medicine. (PRWeb Apr 19, 2008) Read the full story at http://ww1.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb869934.htm

Marjorie H. Reiter, a PhD student at the online university, took office March 8. (PRWeb Apr 18, 2008) Read the full story at

Expert panel of clients features Ameriprise Financial, Carlson, Medtronic, Inc., and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. (PRWeb Apr 19, 2008) Read the full story at http://ww1.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb873484.htm

Stoltenberg Consulting, Inc., one of the healthcare industry's leading information technology consulting firms, today announced that it has received recognition in four categories from Diversity Business. (PRWeb Apr 19, 2008) Read the full story at http://ww1.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb870344.htm