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FDA panel recommends continued Avandia sales, with restrictions

2013-06-06 17:06:00

An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted to keep the diabetes drug Avandia on the market with a slate of restrictions on its use, and suggested that although evidence of the drug's safety problems may have been overblown,...

Forget global warming: We're getting too lazy to reproduce

2013-02-05 13:37:00

Sometimes, headlines alone can tell a story. Start with this one from The Times: “Baby boomers may live longer, but their elders were healthier.” And while you’re pondering that, check this one out: “Sperm count low among couch...

Baby boomers may live longer, but their elders were healthier

2013-02-04 16:04:00

At midlife, the nation’s 78 million baby boomers appear to be in worse health than the generation that preceded them, a new study finds. Researchers from West Virginia University School of Medicine and the Medical University of South Carolina knew...

Rankings of online college and graduate programs released

2013-01-14 21:04:03

Robert L. Carter dies at 94; NAACP attorney fought segregation

2012-01-06 11:04:00

Robert L. Carter, who as an NAACP civil rights attorney was an architect of the legal strategy used in the cases that led to Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared school segregation unconstitutional, has...

Beacon College biology educator Kirk A. Stowe is buggy about insects

2013-06-16 09:12:00

LEESBURG — Insects are Kirk A. Stowe's thing. Stowe, an assistant biology professor at Beacon College in Leesburg, can't get enough of them. He was at Trout Lake Nature Park in Eustis recently sharing his knowledge with others. "Here in...

All-Area players

2013-06-13 19:07:39

Pitcher: Joelle Morey, Senior, Bethlehem Catholic Notes: Had 19-3 record with a 0.67 ERA and 146 strikeouts in 147 innings. … Offensively, she batted .391 with five home runs and 17 RBIs. … Fourth straight on the all-area team … Was the...

Huge Twitter following not laughing matter for S.C. man

2013-06-12 05:20:04

COLUMBIA, S.C. Sammy Rhodes didn't court Twitter fame. Maybe he flirted with it a little, but he only did it to make other people smile. As the following grew for his 140-characters-or-fewer jokes posted under the handle @prodigalsam, Rhodes discovered...

Principal challenges Chambersburg graduates to be men and women of honor

2013-06-08 15:49:00

Before making the trek across Trojan Stadium on Saturday, Ty Fletcher waited patiently with the rest of the Class of 2013 inside the gymnasium at Chambersburg Area Senior High School for his high school career to end and the next phase of his life to...

List of scholar athletes for Broward County schools

2013-06-05 08:20:15

Archbishop McCarthy AMANDA SAXTON: Top 10 percent; FSU; Maverick Scholar Athlete, National Honors Society; track, cross country Boyd Anderson KALI DAVIS-WHITE: Class rank 123; FSU; volleyball, cross country, state track champion Calvary Christian...

College news for May 26, 2013

2013-05-24 00:00:00

Scholarships Eastern Kentucky Univeristy: Cassondra Porter, of Danville, was one of five Eastern Kentucky University students (among only 30 statewide) who received scholarships recently from the Kentucky CPA Educational Foundation. The scholarships...

South Aiken High School students honored

2013-05-20 00:00:00

The following South Aiken High School seniors and a few underclassmen were recognized at an Awards Night ceremony on Thursday: --Most Outstanding Students as listed -- Laura Bickford (science), Daniel Faison (math), Rachel Beeson (math team, social...

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. attends a town hall meeting at the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

2012-01-11 00:00:00