By MATTHEW PERRONE and BEN WIEDER For more than a decade, members of a little-known group called the Pain Care Forum have blanketed Washington with messages touting prescription painkillers’ vital…
By LINDSEY TANNER Many packaged meals and snacks for toddlers contain worrisome amounts of salt and sugar, potentially creating an early taste for foods that may contribute to obesity and…
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE FILE – In this Thursday, May 21, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama plays with a football as he walks back to the Oval Office of the…
By MICHAEL WARREN and NATACHA PISARENKO In this March 29, 2013, photo, former farmworker Fabian Tomasi, 47, shows the condition of his emaciated body as he stands inside his home…
By KARL RITTER and MALIN RISING Images of James Rothman and Randy Schekman, of the US, and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof are projected on a screen, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday,…
By LAURAN NEERGAARD This undated handout photo provided by UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center shows Dr. Patricia Ganz of the University of California, Los Angeles, who chaired an Institute of…
Mark Post, developer of the stem cell burger, poses before the first public tasting, in London, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. For hamburgers that cost more than $300,000 to produce, you…
By DINESH RAMDE and M.L. JOHNSON In this undated booking photo released by Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, Hua Jun Zhao, 42, is shown. Zhao, a researcher at the Medical College…
