Latest Highlights
She has held the same tortured pose for more than 130 years, her face contorted, her mouth open wide in a scream. Bony hands press against her sides, and strands of strawberry-blond hair fall behind her.
A Pennsylvania state representative grilled a senior Rohm & Haas Co. executive during a House committee hearing yesterday, accusing the chemical company of not doing enough to determine the cause of more than 15 brain tumors suffered by current and former employees.
- A new study suggests patients with low levels of the nutrient were likelier to die of the disease.Breast-cancer patients with low levels of Vitamin D were more likely to die of the disease or have it spread than were patients who got enough of the nutrient, researchers reported yesterday.
-
WASHINGTON - The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species yesterday because of the loss of Arctic sea ice but also cautioned the decision should not be viewed as a path to address global warming.
- Does a pacemaker work properly? Check it regularly using wireless technology, and in the office at least once a year.People with implanted heart devices need closer follow-up care, an international panel of heart specialists recommended yesterday in the first guidelines for monitoring this rapidly growing group of patients.
- The vaunted mission of providing digital access to all ran aground on lack of income and the provider's move to exit.Philadelphia's citywide wireless network, which drew international attention and praise when it was launched, is likely to be scrapped. EarthLink Inc., which built and maintains the system, announced yesterday that it would end service June 12 and begin dismantling the system's physical infrastructure soon after.
-
The bicyclist won. No surprise there: Pit a bike, a car and a SEPTA bus against one another in a "commuter race" to Center City during rush hour, and the two-wheeler usually wins.
- A study shows a new benefit of women being physically active as teens and young adults.WASHINGTON - New research shows that exercise during the teen years - starting as young as age 12 - can help protect girls from breast cancer when they are grown.
-
LONDON - Albert Einstein: Archrationalist or scientist with a spiritual core? A letter being auctioned in London tomorrow adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, he dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish."
Latest Health and Science News
-
Take another little piece of my heart now, baby. Marjorie Sprague kept playing those song lyrics in her mind, but not because she was lovelorn.
-
When Joseph Boscarino returned from Vietnam in 1966, it seemed as if the war came home with him. Many of his fellow veterans in his New Jersey hometown battled drug problems and nightmares. Some committed suicide. He says his own twin brother, who went to war the following year, came back a changed person - debilitated by anxiety and delusions.
- Several years ago, biologist Jenny Graves caused much consternation among men when she announced that the gender's defining human Y chromosome was going extinct. But to forecast when it would disappear, she said, she had to wait for the complete genetic analysis of the duck-billed platypus.
-
Question: I recently got married to a man who had a vasectomy 21/2 years ago in a previous marriage. Well, I'm pregnant! My husband initially accused me of cheating on him, but I swore to him that I've not been with another man. It must be that his vasectomy failed. But how can that be? Aren't they permanent?
Post a comment
-
Jane was nearly 40 years old when she came to see me for poor self-esteem. Despite her achievements, she never felt good about herself and was unable to sustain a relationship with a man.
Monday Health & Science Section
Health & Science Columns and Blogs
Inquirer environmental reporter Sandy Bauers writes on how to live a more ecologically sensitive life.
Jane was nearly 40 years old when she came to see me for poor self-esteem. Despite her achievements, she never felt good about herself and was unable to sustain a relationship with a man.
Dealing with breast cancer is an ordeal too many women face. Sandra Long, Inquirer managing editor, tells her story, from diagnosis to drawing strength from faith and friends, in her blog, "In Sandra's Shoes."
SPECIAL REPORTS
A three-part series
A child's catastrophic illness. Her parents' emotional ordeal. And a hospital's fight to save a little girl.
Philly.com Promotions
- Apparel
- Books
- Movies
- Page Reprints
- Photos
Buy Inquirer, Daily News & Philly merchandise here including:
Ticket Offers
- News | What's Happening | Sports | Restaurants & Food | Arts & Entertainment | Living | Travel | Business | Health | Opinion
Site Services:
Classifieds:
- Jobs | Cars | Real Estate | Rentals | Marketplace | Celebrations