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Anger may make you red in the face, but new research shows that rush of blood may be cut off by high blood pressure -- posing a potential risk to the brain.

On Wednesday, Gov. Sarah Palin signed a bill making it easier for veterinarians to work in Alaska.

TV personality Heidi Montag arrives at the T-Mobile Sidekick LX launch event at Paramount Studios on May 14 in Hollywood, Calif.

Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 09 Jul 2009 A new study suggests activities combining movement and force tax our brains to capacity, countering a long-held belief that difficulty with dexterous tasks results from the limits of the muscles themselves.

A tawdry scheme to sell access to journalists tarnishes the reputation of one of America's great newspapers Perhaps the most shocking thing about Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth's misbegotten plan to sell access to her journalists at off-the-record dinners in her own home is that so many found it so shocking.

The streets of Iran have been largely silenced, but a power struggle grinds on behind the scenes, this time over the very nature of the state itself.

The extravagant mourning for Michael Jackson has some critics wondering whether the pop singer's global superstardom could ever be duplicated in an Internet era offering endless entertainment choices.

"Push your finger as hard as you can against the surface. Now as hard as you can but move it slowly - follow the ticking clock.

If the May 19 special election scared Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers into action, they aren't showing it.

LOS ANGELES a ' Togo W. Tanaka, a former journalist and businessman whose reports on life inside the Manzanar internment camp illuminated divisions in the Japanese-American community after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the tensions that eventually erupted in riots at the World War II detention center, has died at 93.

An oil painting from 1881 by John Maler Collier depicts Henry Hudson, his son and a crew member after he was presumably set adrift in a small boat after a mutiny on his last voyage.

When the new GI Bill kicks in Aug. 1, the government's best-known education program for veterans will get the biggest boost since its World War II-era creation.

TAPPAN - A scholar, educator and activist, Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi has been in the front line of promoting civil rights and conducting sociological studies on racial relationships.

Herbert G. Klein, the veteran newspaperman who covered Richard M. Nixon's 1946 congressional campaign and then followed the California Republican through shattering electoral defeats to the White House to play his part in Cold War politics and the Watergate scandal, died Thursday after having a heart attack at his home in the San Diego suburb of La ...

Technology Solutions , one of the largest independent technology leasing and technology solutions providers in North America, today announced the appointments of Mark Babin and Jeff Knaus as national account managers.

It might take Californians a puff or two to get their heads around an apparent contradiction recently enshrined in state law.

Mental stress causes carotid artery dilation and increases brain blood flow. A series of ultrasound experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cardiovascular Ultrasound , also found that this dilatory reflex was absent in people with high blood pressure.

Michael Jackson's ex-wife has vowed to fight for custody of the pop icon's children.

Iason Athanasiadis is still a young man at 30, but he's an old school, shoe leather journalist.

The investigation of Michael Jackson's death is widening as questions intensify about the drugs he took, the doctors who provided them and the actions of police.