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To schedule a routine mammogram, a woman should know some key facts about the hospital or health-care facility performing the screening, as well as its physicians and technology...Skezas, M.D., board-certified radiologist and chairman of Imaging Services at Saint Joseph Hospital...

Accra, Nov. 18, GNA - The 2009 state of the World Population Report, has revealed that the earth surface continues to warm up due to human activities with temperatures increasing by 0.74 degree Celsius within the past two centuries.

The Tsavo lions, reputed to have consumed 135 railroad workers in Africa at the turn of the last century, were not quite as ravenous as legend would have it. The lions—whose stuffed carcasses are enshrined at Chicago’s Field Museum—actually dispatched...

Climate change wreaked havoc on the Earth’s first rainforests but they quickly bounced back, scientists reveal. The findings of the research team, led by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from Royal Holloway, University of London, are based on spectacular discoveries of 300-million-year-old...

Rates of gestational diabetes have been increasing as more U.S. women enter pregnancy overweight. Moderate to severe cases of the condition have long been treated, but doctors have been uncertain whether women with mild increases in blood-sugar levels warrant additional...

Those results come on the heels of last week's announcement that the federal government will fund a large clinical trial of a nicotine vaccine based on earlier promising studies. Neither the nicotine nor the cocaine vaccine prevent addiction the way...