COLLEGEVILLE, Pennsylvania, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), today announced the initiation of the INTORACT (Investigation of TORISEL And bevacizumab…

The actor Sir Peter Ustinov once famously said "Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who get there first."…

When people hear about elder abuse in nursing homes, they usually think of staff members victimizing residents. However, research by Cornell University faculty members suggests that a more prevalent…

Researchers have demonstrated the possibility of preventing the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, which is responsible for more than a million malaria deaths a year, from becoming…

In 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, which was subsequently developed into a medicine by Florey and Chain in the 1940s. The antibiotic was hailed as a 'miracle cure' and a golden age of…

LONDON, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- LONDON, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey reveals more than three quarters - 84% - of the country's mums are unknowingly teaching their kids the incorrect routine…

LONDON, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The UK will need to attract more highly skilled workers from abroad - both from the European Union and outside it - in order to secure the future of high technology…

LONDON, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- LONDON, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite, Britain's biggest union is urging the government to act to make pension schemes compulsory, as a survey of voters in key marginal…

A major contribution to the long-term storage and access of data on mutation for genes and disease has been established with the launch of Human Genomics and Proteomics, the first database journal…

If you have a subscription to Scientific American, make sure you check out Carl Zimmer's discussion of the question "What is a species?".  It's a good introduction to a long-running conundrum in…