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A GOOD FALL By Ha Jin Pantheon, $24.95 HOW THE INDIANS BURIED THEIR DEAD By Hilary Masters SMU Press, $22.50 Short story collections are appearing with more regularity now.

Use of the heart drug digoxin appears to increase the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, according to the results of a study published in Breast Cancer Research.

A searchable map detailing 40 years of Israeli archaeological work in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, developed for the USC Digital Library, has won the 2009 Open Archaeology Prize from the American Schools of Oriental Research.

Sand 9 caps its MEMS oscillator chips with a CMOS ASIC to create an integrated two-chip stack.

If you were hoping swine flu was on the decline in Massachusetts - sorry. State health officials say the H1N1 virus is so widespread there's now more flu in the state than at any other time in recorded history.

Dr. Amy Tuteur is an obstetrician-gynecologist. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine.

Last April, a Las Vegas prostitute who had flown to Boston was robbed at gunpoint in her Copley Square hotel room.

Boston Police have still not identified the suspect involved in the Nov. 8 murder of Boston University Dining Services employee Gregory Phillips in Allston, though they are currently holding a potential connection to the incident in custody, officials said.

A graduate student working in one of Boston University's labs was sickened with an infection with the bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis .

Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in American veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries a ' signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

In many ways it was just another day, another class of Wesleyan University , one of the more selective colleges in the Northeast.

John P. Ball, 85, of Golden Crest Assisted Living, 29 Baldwin St., formerly of 10 Oak St., Belmont, died surrounded by his loving family Thursday, Nov.

IN research that sheds light on the perils of yo-yo dieting and repeated bouts of sugar-bingeing, researchers from The Scripps Research Institute have shown in animal models that cycling between periods of eating sweet and regular-tasting food can activate the brain's stress system and generate overeating, anxiety, and withdrawal-like symptoms.

The University of Phoenix has 190 campuses operating in 39 states , the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

The Werner Herzog Attack Wing of Bostonist.com has been breathlessly awaiting the Boston release of Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans , Herzog's not-remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 classic.

Of all the candidates vying for the State House's corner office next year, there's one gubernatorial candidate who, if elected, would be standing up for the average Joe.

Klaus Berger MD, MPH, MSc; Julie E. Buring ScD; Carlos S. Kase MD; J. Michael Gaziano MD, MPH; and Tobias Kurth MD, ScD* From the Division of Preventive Medicine , the Division of Aging , Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; the Department of Epidemiology , Harvard School of Public Health, ...

Nov. 12 - The debate over the Afghan war continues with the US Ambassador now expressing deep concerns about sending more U.S. troops.

Not a big fan of dieting? Join the club. But new research in rats hints at why weight loss is so tough -- perhaps as tough as kicking drug addiction.

According to the Annual Talent Shortage Survey released by Manpower South Africa earlier this year, the accounting and finance sector listed 5th on a list of sectors struggling to fill existing vacancies.