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Mayo Clinic researchers have found that women with diabetes were significantly less likely to undergo screening for breast cancer by mammography than patients in a control group.

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Your pharmacist offers you a choice between a brand-name medication and its generic equivalent. In most situations, the only difference is a lower price.

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A new hearing device that is implanted in your middle ear may provide better sound quality than conventional hearing aids.

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Lifetime exposure to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may be associated with better maintenance of cognitive function in older women free of dementia.

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Pick up a book or magazine, go for a walk, see a movie or visit a friend or relative -- and reduce your risk for developing Alzheimer's Disease. Reading and engaging in other leisure activities may reduce the risk or delay onset of clinical manifestations of dementia.

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Psychologists may have found the "missing link" between the aging brain and declining cognitive abilities, via studies that show where younger and older people part ways in "context processing."

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The belief that women are more likely than men to quit their managerial jobs for family or other reasons -- a belief that could be the cause of discrimination in women's hiring or promotion -- may be outdated, according to new research on the turnover rates of male and female managers.

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This holiday story tells about a visit by Santa to the International Space Station (ISS), where he has to deal with uncooperative tinsel, floating cookie crumbs, and a space-sick reindeer. It's fiction, but the tale illustrates some real facts of life on the ISS.

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The human internal clock fails to adapt to non-24-hour days and that takes its toll on astronauts, international travelers and shift workers. Shuttle missions typically operate on 23.5-hour days, and astronauts exploring Mars would experience a 24.65-hour day.

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The world's foremost interpreters of the works of William Shakespeare-Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company-will bring the Bard to life at Davidson College during a twelve-day residency from February 18 through March 2, 2002.

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Just days after the U.S Surgeon General declared that the nation is in the midst of an obesity epidemic, Congress has given final approval for funds that U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., added for a new Center on Obesity at West Virginia University.

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Researchers at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro are working on an early detection system for bioterrorist attacks on public water supplies through a $500,000 federal grant.

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Working with model cell systems that mimic cystic fibrosis (CF) affected human airways, University of Iowa researchers and their colleagues have used a new gene therapy technique to correct the most common CF genetic defect in human cells.

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Researchers duly note in a new study that welcoming a second child into a family and helping the children establish sibling relationships involves many challenging tasks. Unfortunately, they say, the advice parents are getting falls short.

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A doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University in Curriculum and Teaching with a concentration in learning disabilities, and a mother of a 13 year-old girl, joined forces to write an article that won the Walter M. Sindlinger Writing Award. In research done on the quality of collaboration between parents and professionals.

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Free physician and patient advisories about breast cancer screening with mammography are available on LWWMedicine.com, in response to recent concerns over whether mammography is an effective tool in reducing death due to breast cancer.

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Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and St. Vincent de Paul's Hospital in Paris have learned that bone defects associated with classic bladder exstrophy are more extensive than previously thought. Their findings will enable surgeons to better correct these bone defects that cause the bladder to develop outside of the body.

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A NASA scientist has discovered sugar and several related organic compounds in two meteorites -- providing new evidence that the chemical building blocks of life on Earth might have come from outer space.

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Evolutionary biology has always faced a major hurdle - how to test a process that takes place over thousands, if not millions, of years. Researchers at Stanford University may have come up with a solution.

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An anthropologist is available to comment on the history of the conflict between India and Pakistan and how violence has affected the formation of South Asian nations and communities.