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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,...

MIT algorithm can predict how popular a tweet will be

2013-05-29 11:21:00

Maximizing retweets of Twitter posts has always been a science to some Twitter users. They try to post at certain times when a lot of their followers are active. Others try to list the right hashtags or mention accounts of important people. Now, there...

The world through a newborn's senses

2013-05-11 00:00:00

Newborns arrive in this world somewhat half-baked or, in the more measured words of evolutionary anthropologist Wanda Trevathan of the University of New Mexico, "a little unfinished, if you will." Parents declare them beautiful, these wailing bundles of...

Herbert Blau dies at 87; theater director helped shape CalArts

2013-05-09 22:48:00

Herbert Blau, an influential theater director, theorist and scholar who helped shape CalArts during its early years, died at his home in Seattle on May 3, his 87th birthday. He had cancer, according to the Seattle Times. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born...

Spending teenage years in the 'stroke belt' seems to increase risk

2013-04-24 14:59:00

Spending adolescence in the “stroke belt” of the southeastern United States could make people more vulnerable to stroke later in life – even if they eventually move elsewhere, a study published Wednesday suggests. What researchers call...

Anthony Lewis dies at 85; two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

2013-03-26 00:00:00

Two-time Pulitzer-Prize winner Anthony Lewis, whose New York Times column championed liberal causes for three decades, died Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85. Lewis worked for 32 years as a columnist for the New York Times, taking up...

Does childhood TV viewing lead to criminal behavior?

2013-02-18 13:19:00

Two recent studies linking childhood television viewing to antisocial behavior and criminal acts as adults are prompting some pediatricians to call for a national boob tube intervention. A commentary published alongside the studies in the journal...

For the raunchy '21 & Over,' a very different message in China

2013-02-14 14:25:00

When audiences turn out for “21 & Over” in theaters beginning March 1, they’ll see a celebration of a prominent aspect of the American college experience -- the one involving beer pong, pep rallies and sexually liberated sorority girls....

Josh Powell's brother, Michael Powell, dead in apparent suicide

2013-02-12 17:57:00

In the latest chapter of an almost operatic family tragedy, the brother of murder-suicide suspect Josh Powell has died in Minneapolis after apparently throwing himself from a seven-story parking structure. A spokesman at the University of Minnesota,...

Student test scores can identify effective teachers, new study says

2013-01-08 13:03:41

Gun lobby has squelched injury prevention research, doctors charge

2012-12-21 16:47:00

One week after 20-year-old Adam Lanza used guns to kill 20 first-graders and seven adults before shooting himself, two physicians published a Viewpoint article in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. asking what the medical and public health...

UC San Diego again tops national rankings of universities

2012-08-27 12:13:53

Dr. Kabir Julka has joined the department of gastroenterology at Dreyer Medical Clinic, and is seeing patients at the clinic's Highland and Rush-Copley Campus. He has special interests in pancreatic and biliary diseases as well as inflammatory bowel diseases.

2012-08-30 11:00:00

Amanda Knox motions to cheering supporters as her mother, Edda Mellas, looks on at a news conference shortly after her arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Tuesday in Seattle.

2011-10-04 20:50:00