Atlanta Science & Technology News

Amazon.com came out the winner in the battle for Internet traffic on Cyber Monday, typically one of the biggest days for e-commerce sales every year. Amazon received 15.53 percent of all U.S. visits among the top 500 retail web sites,...

Holiday get-togethers and traveling itself provide an ideal way for illness to spread, especially H1N1 flu, U.S. health officials said. Officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said Thursday it it beginning its largest ever public...

Federal health officials have been fighting from the start a belief that the new vaccine could be risky, and they plan an unprecedented system of monitoring for side effects. Officials note that swine flu vaccine is made the same way...

Prosecutors countered that the state defines a "motor vehicle" as a "self-propelled" device, and there's no doubt a riding mower meets that standard. The state's top court agreed, concluding in an 18-page decision that the sentence should be overturned because...

Shortly before noon yesterday, Dr. Benjamin Kruskal was tapping out an e-mail to his wife. The topic: the safety of swine flu vaccine. “A large group of her friends on Facebook are discussing it,’’ said Kruskal, a pediatrician and infectious...

Before the aromas of the holiday circle your kitchen, and your family and friends gather ‘round the dinner table, take a minute this holiday to be mindful of a few food safety tips...Before the aromas of the holiday circle your...

Your family might be sharing more than turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving...Just as the pandemic seems to be waning around the country, some health officials are worried that holiday gatherings could lead to more infections. So the government has...

The Georgia Professional Standards Commission has voted to issue a yearlong ban to four Glynn County educators involved in a statewide test cheating scandal. The commission's Thursday vote comes after a state audit released this summer found evidence that standardized...

Data on 1,400 U.S. adults and 500 children hospitalized because of H1N1 indicate most had underlying conditions, a health official said Tuesday. Dr. Ann Schuchat, director of the national center for immunization and respiratory diseases at the Centers for Disease...