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Drugs to treat hypertension and diabetes are substantially less effective in blacks than they are in whites, one of the many mysteries involving the interaction between health and race that...

Driven by a painful mix of layoffs and rising food and fuel prices, the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach 28 million in the coming year,...

Dith Pran, a photojournalist whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for...

After two weeks in which China contended that Tibet's government in exile had instigated the riots earlier this month to tarnish the coming Summer Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government...

Dr. Michael Lesch, a medical educator whose name is attached to a hereditary disorder characterized by self-mutilation that he helped identify as a medical student, died March 19 while on...

William Hyland, who helped shape U.S. foreign policy, particularly toward the Soviet Union, as a top-level bureaucrat and then became editor of the influential journal Foreign Affairs, died Tuesday in...

Air travel to Europe is about to undergo a significant change, one that is likely to spell more choices and cheaper fares for travelers. Starting today, the so-called open-skies agreement...

Many hospital patients are dissatisfied with some aspects of their care and might not recommend their hospitals to friends and relatives, the federal government said Friday as it issued ratings...

For the second successive day, British Airways canceled dozens of flights at Heathrow's glittery new Terminal 5 as its staff struggled with state-of-the-art technology supposed to hasten check-in procedures and...

The Bush administration will propose Monday that Congress give the Federal Reserve broad new authority to oversee financial market stability, in effect allowing it to send swat teams into any...