Wildlife filmmakers focusing on endangered cats

South African wildlife photographers and authors Dereck and Beverly Joubert have worked in some of Africa's most remote areas for more...

High hopes for a malaria vaccine

Each year, malaria kills more than 1 million people -- 90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa and 80% of them younger than 5 -- and makes 300...

Obesity puts swine flu sufferers at greater risk, study suggests

Obesity appears to be a risk factor on a par with pregnancy for developing complications from an infection with pandemic H1N1 influenza,...

Gene therapy makes major stride in 'Lorenzo's Oil' disease

In the third gene-therapy success of recent weeks, French researchers have arrested the progression of the rare and fatal degenerative...

FDA seeks to reduce drug dosage errors

In an attempt to reduce the deaths and serious health problems caused by misuse of medication, the Food and Drug Administration is trying to...

Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100; French philosopher's ideas transformed anthropology

Claude Levi-Strauss, the French philosopher widely considered the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion...

Biologist Richard Dawkins on the evolution debate

In the 150 years since the publication of Charles Darwin's landmark book, "On the Origin of Species," researchers have accrued massive...

CDC gives new swine flu numbers

Between 1.8 million and 5.7 million Americans caught pandemic H1N1 influenza this spring, as many as 21,000 were hospitalized, and perhaps...

Gene therapy transforms eyesight of 12 born with rare defect

Pennsylvania researchers using gene therapy have made significant improvements in vision in 12 patients with a rare inherited visual defect,...

3-year-old gets prosthetic arm bone

In what they called a medical first in a toddler, surgeons at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital have implanted a...

Gene therapy may boost success of lung transplants

A new gene therapy procedure to restore function in lungs damaged during harvesting from donors could make more of the organs available...

Peru's Nazca culture was brought down with its trees

The Nazca people of Peru -- famous for their huge line drawings on an arid plateau that are fully visible only from the air -- set the stage...