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Dr. Randy L. Hanzlick, a physician who has been the chief medical examiner in Fulton County, Georgia since 1998, is this year's Salem High School Alumni Association Honored Alumnus.

The American public is split down the middle over whether they would be prepared to ride in a driverless car and whether computers will match humans when it comes to creating works of art.

Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca could be valued at more than A 60billion after a tentative takeover approach from Viagra manufacturer Pfizer, a press report said today.

It's H-1B visa lottery time again in America. Which means lots of anxious employers in Indiana praying their numbers come up.

In July 1998, the National Institutes of Health changed what it means to be overweight, defining it as a body mass index of 25 or greater for adults.

By court order, The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine obtained extensive information and canine health records from Wayne State University through the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.

Manuel Peitsch, co-founder of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics , will chair a session on high-performance computing in the life sciences at ISC'14 in Leipzig, Germany, in June.

Verastem CEO Robert Forrester says the company's planned move to Needham from its current headquarters in Cambridge has as much to do with the changing nature of the company as with cheaper rent.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that an increase in cases of food poisoning from raw shellfish has occurred; on a brighter note, cases of food poisoning from salmonella has dropped On April 18, in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that an increase in cases of food ... (more)

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd is looking to sell its 60-acre property in Thane district.

An Abbott Laboratories spinoff urged a federal appeals court to revisit a ruling in a case against GlaxoSmithKline Plc, but without disturbing landmark constitutional protections for gays and lesbians.

When Tessemae's salad dressing quickly became a hit, the owners of the family-run condiment company were faced with the reality that they needed help navigating the grocery business.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday declined to temporarily block a lower court ruling that opens the world's best-selling multiple sclerosis drug to competition from generic rivals next month.

Biogen Idec Inc is pricing its newly-approved long-acting hemophilia drug to cost U.S. patients, and insurers, about the same per year as older, less convenient therapies whose price can reach about $300,000 annually.

More than two-thirds of the states reported job gains in March, as hiring improves for much of the country during what has been a sluggish but sustained 4 1/2-year recovery.

We've seen a little bit of a relief rally over the past couple of days in the overall market with the start of earnings season giving investors hope that the U.S. economy and corporations can keep motoring higher.

When picking up a delicate egg, they can't instinctively modulate how hard they're gripping it.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd said it settled a patent litigation with Pfizer Inc, allowing the Israeli drugmaker to launch a generic version of Pfizer's blockbuster pain medication, Celebrex, in December.

U.S. regulators have again approved a Merck & Co. tablet for gradually reducing seasonal allergies, this time for ragweed pollen.

Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline - hit by bribery claims in five countries - is to employ hundreds more doctors as members of staff as it seeks to build a new sales model designed to eliminate sharp marketing practices.