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Diversity enticed the Rev. Melissa Remington to move from Buffalo, N.Y., to Charleston, where she is the new priest at St.

Main Category: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health Acid Reflux / GERD "Screening for Barrett's esophagus in asymptomatic women" Barrett's esophagus is a condition where the lining of the esophagus changes due to chronic inflammation, generally from gastroesophageal reflux disease .

Dr. David A. Stoker, MD, FACS of Marina Plastic Surgery Associates discusses innovative medical research and the latest technology surrounding liposuction from his Los Angeles plastic surgery practice.

The field of personal robotics is raising all kinds of legal issues -- and not just personal injury and property damage They already detect and defuse bombs, control traffic patterns and do some basic household chores.

You wouldn't want a car with no brakes. It turns out that the developing brain needs them, too.

Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study led by a team of researchers at University of California, Berkeley, and published in today's online issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .

UC San Diego School of Medicine today announced the appointment of Thomas E. Jackiewicz as new CEO of the UC San Diego Medical Center, effective November 23.A Jackiewicz will be responsible for the management of the Medical Center, which comprises UC San Diego Medical Center- Hillcrest, Thornton Hospital, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, Shiley Eye ...

"It looks unlikely that there will be any substantial near-term departure from recently observed acceleration in carbon dioxide emission rates," says the new paper by Tim Garrett, an associate professor of atmospheric sciences.

Dyyno, the breakthrough online video distribution platform, today announced the appointment of Ken Hausman to the position of vice president of corporate development.

A Stanford University student from Illinois and a Princeton University student from Saratoga are among 32 Americans who have won Rhodes Scholarships.

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University has developed a way to simulate blood flow on the computer to optimize surgical designs.

Being blind didn't keep Stephanie Enyart from graduating from Stanford University.

THE University of California now says it will ask state legislators for $913 million more next year than it received in this year's budget.

For a speech about reconciliation it could hardly have been more divisive. Jonathan D. Jansen, the new head of the University of the Free State , spoke of the "place of infamy" just 100 yards behind him, the residence hall where four white students last year made a racist video that incited outrage across the country.

According to IBM, "BlueMatter, a new algorithm created by IBM researchers in collaboration with Stanford University, exploits the Blue Gene supercomputing architecture in order to noninvasively measure and map the connections between all cortical and sub-cortical locations within the human brain using magnetic resonance diffusion weighted imaging." ...

Women in their 40s should stop having routine annual mammograms and older women should cut back to one scheduled exam every two years, an influential federal task force announced Monday.

This week two panels of medical experts recommended fewer screening tests for breast and cervical cancer.

U.S. scientists say the scalding-hot sea that many of us were taught covered the early Earth might, in fact, never have existed.

Sergey Brin wanted to test a job applicant, so he gave her a snap assignment, writes Ken Auletta in his new book, Googled .

STANFORD, Calif. - Having multiple sclerosis or epilepsy doesn't put a mother-to-be at significant risk for pregnancy-related problems, according to a new study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers.