Blood test may find early lung cancer

A blood test that looks for the body's own immune response to tumours may provide an easy way to find lung cancer in patients long before an X-ray or CT scan could, US researchers reported on Friday.

None dare call it reason, but amnesty will do for the time being

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door"  <---  21st Century interpretation: ...

Woman Has Rare Case of Bubonic Plague

The Bubonic Plague, more commonly referred to as the "Black Death," ravaged Europe between the years 1347 and 1350. During this short period, 25 million people (one third of Europe's population at the time) were killed.  Thousands of people died each week and...