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Curing Cancer Means More Work, Less Media Hype

5 days 16 hours ago |AOL News

Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT

(March 16) -- The war against cancer has made significant strides since 1971, when then President Richard Nixon proposed a national strategy to combat the disease. But cancer threatens to afflict gro ...

UN: HIV Infections on the Rise in High-Risk Groups

5 days 20 hours ago |AOL News

(March 16) -- HIV infection rates among high-risk groups like gays, drug users and sex workers are on the rise around the world, The Associated Press reports, with U.N. AIDS agency chief Michel Sidib ...

They Got Rhythm, Study of Babies Finds

5 days 20 hours ago |AOL News

Dr. Tuomas Eerola

(March 16) -- Babies innately respond to rhythm more than speech, according to a new study that found dancing comes naturally to infants. Researchers in Britain and Finland tested the responses of 1 ...

600-lb. Woman Eating Her Way to Dubious Distinction

6 days 16 hours ago |AOL News

Fame Pictures

(March 15) -- A New Jersey mother of two has announced she'll stick to a calorie-laden, ultra-sedentary lifestyle in her effort to tip the scale as one of the world's heaviest women. Donna Simpson, 4 ...

Double Hand Transplant 'Like Science Fiction'

6 days 18 hours ago |AOL News

ABCNews.com

(March 15) -- After a 2008 tractor accident that left him a double amputee, Chris Pollock resigned himself to prosthetic devices in place of his right forearm and both his hands. Now, thanks to an ex ...

This Week's Burning Questions

6 days 21 hours ago |AOL News

(March 15) -- Take a news break over the weekend? Here's AOL News' guide to what you missed -- and a look at the questions plugged-in people will be pondering this week: Can Nancy Pelosi Save the Oba ...

Democrats Still Short of Votes on Health Care Bill

7 days 16 hours ago |Politics Daily

(March 14) -- After months of deadlines that have come and gone, White House officials and congressional leaders expressed confidence Sunday that they will get the votes they need this week to pass a ...

Schizophrenia Takes Major Toll on Children

7 days 16 hours ago |AOL News

Los Angeles Times/MCT

(March 14) -- It's an illness that doesn't strike often, but one that inevitably has a tremendous effect on the lives of those few children who suffer from it. Schizophrenia is diagnosed in fewer th ...

Daylight Saving Time May Throw Off Internal Clocks

8 days 14 hours ago |AOL News

(March 13) -- On Sunday, thanks to daylight saving time, we are all due to lose precious time as we set our clocks forward an hour. Of course this is annoying on a number of levels -- who wants a sho ...

Catholic Hospitals Back Health Care Reform Bill

8 days 14 hours ago |Politics Daily

Getty Images

(March 13) -- The head of the national association of Catholic hospitals, which holds great sway in the health care debate, on Saturday threw her support behind the contested Senate reform bill in a ...

Miracle Baby Undergoes Hypothermia, Cheats Death

9 days 10 hours ago |AOL News

TODAY

(March 12) -- Bronson Staker was only 17 months old when he was pronounced dead in a Utah hospital. But he's full of life today, thanks to an experimental procedure. Bronson's remarkable ordeal start ...

Why Health Care End Game Is Hijacking Washington

9 days 13 hours ago |AOL News

MCT, Getty Images

(March 12) -- Health care reform or bust. After stalemate followed stalemate for roughly a year of lawmaking and politics, the fight to change national health care rules and insure millions more Ame ...