An unconscionable conscience rule

Medicine & Health / Health

Dec 26, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (13) | 22

Doctors take an oath to put their patients' interests first. A new Bush administration rule will change that. The so-called "conscience rule" is one of a host of last-minute regulatory changes being made in the waning hours ...

How to... improve circulation

Medicine & Health / Health

Dec 26, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (10) | 2

If blood doesn't move well through your veins and arteries, your tissues and organs aren't getting enough oxygen and nutrients. Here are tips for avoiding heart disease and other major health problems that can result:

Trees won't stop tsunamis, scientists warn

Space & Earth / Environment

Dec 26, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (8) | 5

Claims that coastal tree barriers can halt the might of a tsunami are false and dangerous, a team of international marine scientists said today.

Black women in the U.S. appear to be shrinking, data show

Medicine & Health / Other

Dec 26, 2008 | 3.2 / 5 (5) | 1

Call her The Incredible Shrinking African-American Woman. In an age when the adult populations of most industrialized nations have grown significantly taller, the average height of black women in the U.S. has been receding, ...

Robot endures Antarctic cold to prepare for space mission

Electronics / Robotics

Dec 26, 2008 | 5 / 5 (2) | 4

A NASA robot tested last winter in an icy Wisconsin lake will complete a monthlong underwater mission in Antarctica on Thursday, having successfully explored dark, deep waters frozen off from the outside world tens of thousands ...

Artificial ankle brings help for those with long-term suffering

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Dec 26, 2008 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

As a health care worker, Victor Neufer knew about knee and hip replacements, but not so much about artificial ankles until he needed one. A few years ago, he was riding a bicycle on Scenic Drive in Modesto, Calif., when a ...