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(American Academy of Ophthalmology) Today's scientific program includes reports on a potential biomarker for age-related macular degeneration that may also imply common biological signaling mechanisms for general aging and AMD, and on positive results in keratoconus patients treated with a promising technique, corneal collagen crosslinking.

(American Academy of Ophthalmology) Glaucoma-related highlights of today's scientific program of the 2008 Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and European Society of Ophthalmology include a study that correlates optic nerve damage in glaucoma patients with carotid artery narrowing and potentially elevated risk for stroke, and a survey that looks at how the practice of fasting, common to the world's seven major religions, may affect patient compliance with treatment for glaucoma and other eye diseases.

Life has been far from normal for students at Normandy High School since they learned that as many as 50 classmates may have been exposed to H.I.V.

Sporting a Washington Redskins jersey and hat, Bill Yost wasn't really thinking about his health when he walked into the team's locker room at FedEx Field yesterday, but the retired Navy petty officer pretended anyway.

A WOMAN who was made infertile in her teens is set to give birth this week to the world's first ever baby conceived from transplanted ovaries.

A BOXING gym used by some of Scotland's champion fighters is helping to tackle truancy and childhood obesity among its youngest members.

AP - A Washington hospital has asked a judge for permission to stop treating a brain-dead 12-year-old cancer patient, even though his ultra-religious new york parents want to keep him on life support.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Obama's transition chief says the incoming administration is reviewing President Bush's executive orders on stem cell research, oil and gas drilling, and other matters....

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- people with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease dramatically lowered their chances of dying or having a heart attack if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found....

(McGill University health Centre) A team of international researchers -- including scientists from the McGill University Health Center and McGill University -- have discovered that having high levels of particular protein puts patients at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The results of the study were so conclusive that the clinical trial had to be stopped before its scheduled completion date.