If the brouhaha over new mammogram guidelines has proved anything, it's that even modern medicine does not rely on statistics, scientific facts and clinical outcomes alone
How the battle to save a remote rain forest in Indonesia can help the planet win the fight against global warming
An independent government panel this week abandoned its long-standing recommendation that healthy women over 40 get a breast-cancer screen once every year or two years
Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu
A new study finds that the oceans' ability to absorb man-made carbon emissions may be dwindling at the same time that the world's emissions rates show no sign of slowing
Starting next year an extra 6.3 million children worldwide will have the chance to feel that pinch and get vaccinated against some of the world's deadliest illnesses
Santas across the country are hoping for a little gift from U.S. public health officials — a chance to cut the line for the swine flu vaccine
TIME looks at what's on the agenda for the talks in Copenhagen that begin on Dec. 2
Heidi Cullen finds out how the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling Project is using ice to map our history in this Climate Central report
Photographer David Friedman explores the inspiration that moves inventors
Mary Tyler is a bike messenger in Manhattan. It is a risky job, especially when you don't have health insurance.
Tina and Rod Davies have turned their living room in Victoria, Australia into a nursery for orphaned kangaroos and wallabies
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