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A powerful new tool that can extract features and patterns from enormously large and complex data sets has been developed. The tool -- a set of problem-solving calculations known as an algorithm -- is compact enough to run on computers with as little as two gigabytes of memory.

Mental health experts worldwide are warning of a potential crisis, with financial insecurity fuelling an increase in problems ranging from anxiety to lost self-esteem.

Mental health experts worldwide are warning of a potential crisis, with financial insecurity fuelling an increase in problems ranging from anxiety to lost self-esteem.

A cure for paralysis has long seemed like a medical pipe dream. But now, scientists have made major progress, using none other than primates.

The woman who led the nation's public health agency in a post-Sept. 11 world of bioterrorist fears is out, her resignation announced in a Friday night e-mail to employees.Dr. Julie Gerberding has resigned as director of the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and will be replaced on an interim basis by a deputy as of Jan. 20, the day President-elect Barack Obama is inaugurated.The e-mail obtained by The Associated Press that discloses the news was sent Friday night to employees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the umbrella agency over CDC. . . .he might remain was fueled by Obama's selection of Tom Daschle to as HHS Secretary. Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader, is from South Dakota - like Gerberding. Last month, she issued a statement to the press praising Daschle and his 'tradition of finding practical solutions to very tough problems.' . . .But her tenure also proved controversial:- She instituted a large, morale-d