La fonte des glaciers et des banquises et le réchauffement de l'eau pourraient faire s'élever le niveau des océans de 80 cm à 1,5 m avant la fin du siècle, faisant des dizaines de millions de réfugiés climatiques, démontrent des scientifiques. Cette estimation, présentée à l'occasion de la...

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. LÉOGÂNE, Haiti -- Like many surgeons, Dr. Yves Laurissaint is a man supremely sure of himself. "I've trained a lot of other surgeons to do this operation," he said as he sliced open the engorged scrotum of 68-year-old Gesner Nicé, emptied more than a pint of clear liquid,...

Autism and Schizophrenia Linked March 31, 2008 04:36 PM ET Could autism and schizophrenia be cousins? New research shows that people with schizophrenia have rare variations in genes that control brain development and that each person has a unique pattern of mutations. The finding is startlingly...

Un essai clinique d'un vaccin destiné à combattre l'hypertension artérielle donne des résultats prometteurs. La recherche de vaccins contre des pathologies non infectieuses a désormais le vent en poupe. C'est le cas notamment de l'hypertension artérielle. Un premier essai clinique humain d'un...

Mar 10, 8:23 PM EDT Kids Fear 2 Parents With Alzheimer's CHICAGO (AP) -- One parent with Alzheimer's disease is tough enough, but imagine the memory-robbing illness striking both parents - and knowing chances are high you'll get it, too. A study of more than 100 families for the first time...

By Cindy Loose The death of a 44-year-old woman on a flight from Haiti to New York last month and the subsequent accusation of malfunctioning equipment have spotlighted the issue of emergency medical care in the air. The FAA does not have recent statistics on how often medical emergencies occur...