LONDON (Reuters) - It's a discovery that would make even Sherlock Holmes proud.

Scientists in London have traced the embryonic changes that occur in children with Down's syndrome

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Private Medicare Advantage plans will be paid an average 12.4 percent more per enrollee in 2008 compared to what the same enrollee would have cost in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund.

Astronomers have found the first object in the icy Kuiper belt that orbits the Sun backwards compared to the planets

Greenland, the world's largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet (seven meters). Add the ice sheets of Antarctica and the oceans would deepen more than 200 feet (60 meters). Satellite measurements from space and speed measurements on land confirm that Greenland's glaciers are melting and on the move. And although the picture is less clear in Antarctica, the global warming seems to be having an impact there, too. [More]

VISALIA, Calif. (AP) -- Federal researchers are warning that warming temperatures could soon cause California's giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly unless forest managers plan with an eye toward climate change and the impact of a longer, harsher wildfire season....

As top athletes - or middling weekend warriors - age, they need to train smarter to stay competitive

A computerized reminder system used in community-based primary care doctors' offices increased colorectal cancer screening rates by an average of 9 percent, according to a new study from the university of Michigan Health System.