A year of drought and soaring food prices has threatened the lives of tens of thousands of Ethiopian children. "We have nothing to feed our children," said Egu's village elder. "We are losing our ...

Our 8-year-old daughter was diagnosed with ADHD at age 6. We have tried several medications, stimulants and nonstimulants, and have not gotten good results. We are now looking at homeopathic treatment ...

Secretary Shirley DeLucia was just doing her job when she saw Jiverly Wong walk through the door of the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, on Friday. Wong, a 41-year-old who had taken ...

Age as political issue has become a reality the McCain campaign does indeed have to face. McCain turned 72 in August, which would make him the oldest man to begin a first term as ...

In his first week as president and chief executive officer of General Motors, Fritz Henderson expressed optimism that he can steer the company out of the economic rut in which it has stalled. "The ...

President Bush highlighted efforts to improve education in Afghanistan Saturday as he touted the United States' humanitarian mission in the war-torn region. Bush noted in his weekly radio address that ...

But a report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that young adults have their fair share of health woes. A third of 18- to 29-year-olds, a demographic the ...

The Dow on Friday was trying to close at its first record high of the year, as Wall Street has maintained steady optimism despite signs of underlying turbulence in the economy.

In a release dated Sunday coinciding with International Women's Day, Oxfam International issued, "In Her Own Words: Iraqi Women Talk About Their Greatest Concerns and Challenges." Many women have been ...

Also called a woman's "change of life," menopause marks the time in which one's periods stop (defined in retrospect after having no menstrual cycles for a full year) and eggs are no longer produced by ...

Bio: Considered on of the greatest running backs in football history. Born in San Fransisco in 1947, Simpson earned All-American honors at the University of Southern California and won the Heisman ...

Pancreatic cancer patients who are obese may be 12 times more likely to have cancer that's already spread to their lymph nodes at the time of surgery than similar cancer patients who weigh less, ...