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Shortages of flu vaccine are nothing new in America， but this year’s is a whopper. Until last week， it appeared that 100 million Americans would have access to flu shots this fall. Then British author
At 18， Ashanthi DeSilva of suburban Cleveland is a living symbol of one of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century. Born with an extremely rare and usually fatal disorder that left her
You hop into your car， but， wait， where are the keys? You meet someone new， but her name is gone before the handshake’s over. Those are failures of your short-term， or “working，” memory——the place you
When Ellen M. Roche， 24， volunteered for the asthma experiment， she didn’t expect to benefit from it——except for the $365 she’d be paid. Unlike clinical trials， in which most patients hope that an exp
Scientists have known for more than two decades that cancer is a disease of the genes. Something scrambles the Dna inside a nucleus， and suddenly， instead of dividing in a measured fashion， a cell beg