Greensboro Police Add Officers After Week's Protests
The Greensboro Police Department is preparing for more reaction to high-profile cases of deadly police force across the country.
Health & Safety
Caring For AIDS Patients, 'When No One Else Would'
Ruth Coker Burks has no medical training but has spent decades caring for people with AIDS. "I've buried over 40 people in my family's cemetery," she says, "because their families didn't want them."
Of Carrots And Kids: Healthy School Lunches That Don't Get Tossed
You can lead children to vegetables, but can you make them eat? In one school lunch program, kids will tell you upfront what they think of your veggies — and what you should do with them.
Gilead Buys Shortcut For FDA Drug Review For $125 Million
The Food and Drug Administration priority review voucher comes from a Canadian company that got it by developing a drug for leishmaniasis, a disease long neglected by pharmaceutical companies.
This Year's Flu Season Could Be A Bad One
The most common strain of flu virus circulating this year tends to cause a lot of serious illness and more deaths than usual. It's also not a great match for this year's flu vaccine.
For Ebola Orphans In Liberia, It's A Bittersweet New Beginning
After being quarantined for weeks, 18 children in Monrovia are ready to go to new homes or reunite with extended family. But it's not all smiles as the children remember the family they lost.
Is HIV Evolving Into A Weaker Virus?
In parts of southern Africa, HIV has picked up mutations that slow down its ability to grow inside a person's blood. That's a good sign. But will it be enough to make a difference in the epidemic?
Blind From Birth, But Able To Use Sound To 'See' Faces
The area of the brain that recognizes faces can use sound instead of sight. That recent discovery suggests facial recognition is so important to humans that it's part of our most basic wiring.
China To End Organ Harvesting From Executed Inmates
The controversial practice has long been criticized by human rights campaigners who say that it could hasten the pace that prisoners are put to death in China.
Liberia President Sets Dec. 25 Goal For No New Ebola Cases
Ebola has killed more people in Liberia than any other country — just over 3,100. And it continues to be a problem in Liberia's countryside. But the number of new cases overall in the West African nation dropped over the last two months, according to health officials.