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Metro's service for the disabled has improved significantly but high turnover among drivers -- 111 percent -- and other staff workers is costing Metro more money and adversely affecting riders, according to a report to be released today.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Despite their reputation as lovers not fighters of the primate world, bonobos actually hunt and eat other great apes, German researchers said Monday.
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Thai riot police officers used a cheap Chinese tear gas, which contained an explosive powerful, to disperse protesters, an investigator said.
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Auditors say thousands of dollars raised by Montgomery County high school students were spent on staff perks instead of student needs.
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Tests on leading brands of bottled water turned up a variety of contaminants often found in tap water, according to a study released Wednesday by an environmental advocacy group....
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LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have pinpointed a key brain chemical involved in dealing with the sudden loss or long-term separation of a partner, they said Wednesday.
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Virginia is among the least prepared states to handle Election Day problems such as long lines, broken machines and software malfunctions, according to a report released yesterday by voting rights advocates.
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A new study published today in the journal Science suggests that women who derive less pleasure from eating may eat more to compensate. The research also discovered a genetic trait that, when present, is associated with an even stronger relationship between low sense of reward and overeating.
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People who fall seriously ill from E. coli poisoning are at sharply higher risk for permanent kidney disease, a landmark seven-year study of victims of Canada's tainted-water tragedy has concluded.
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The mystery of why some people stay slim while others get fat may be partly explained by differences between the way individual brains measure the pleasure of eating.
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A major trial found taking aspirin had no benefits for people without any symptoms of heart disease and it can cause bleeding in the stomach.
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Parents and children might rush through their days in different directions, but the American family is as tight-knit as in the last generation -- or more so -- because of the widespread use of cellphones and the Internet, according to a new poll.
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The University of California study comes as state and regional initiatives on climate-change policies have been gathering momentum.
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Nearly half of all spirit measures tested by trading standards officers in pubs, restaurants and hotels are short.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A report by a civil liberties group has found that Los Angeles police officers are more likely to stop and search black and Hispanic residents than they are whites, even though whites are more often found carrying guns and contraband....
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Three Canadian men who traveled to Syria independently and for personal reasons were arrested and jailed upon arrival.
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Three Canadian men who traveled to Syria independently and for personal reasons were arrested and jailed upon arrival.
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Three Canadian men who traveled to Syria independently and for personal reasons were arrested and jailed upon arrival.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The common cold virus activates dozens of immune system genes in the lining of the nose, including some natural antivirals that might be used as the basis of new drugs, researchers reported on Friday.
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Only one in 10 cyclists bothers to stop at zebra crossings a study has found backing fears lives are being put at risk.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- People who have the AIDS virus should start drug treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, suggests a large new study that could change the care of hundreds of thousands of Americans....
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People who have AIDS should start treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, suggests a large study that could change the care of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Earlier treatment may be better when it comes to taking drugs for the AIDS virus, researchers reported on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Patients given transfusions of blood stored 29 days or longer -- well within U.S. standards -- are twice as likely to get a hospital-acquired infection as those getting newer blood, researchers said on Tuesday.
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A new study finds that cold sufferers often leave their germs there, where they can live for two days or longer.
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Unpublished data from the Internal Revenue Service shows those earning between $500,000 and $1 million are most likely to underreport their incomes.
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Videoconferencing is often heralded as the next best thing to being somewhere — a cheaper, simpler alternative to traveling in person to attend a meeting. Yet a small study raises questions about whether videoconferencing distorts interactions in a subtle but important way.
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Scientists say cases soared in Bakersfield last year largely because of mosquitoes breeding in abandoned swimming pools. One of the nation's worst-hit cities for foreclosures in 2007 -- Bakersfield -- became an epicenter of West Nile virus that year largely because of mosquitoes breeding in abandoned swimming pools, UC Davis and Kern County scientists reported Thursday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Pregnant women who consume caffeine -- even about a cup of coffee daily -- are at higher risk of giving birth to an underweight baby, researchers said on Monday.
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Pregnant women who consume caffeine, even about a cup of coffee daily, are at higher risk of giving birth to an underweight baby, British researchers said on Monday.
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An expert says specialized treatment by neurologists can help patients control seizures. But cost and transportation are major hurdles. br/br/ Seizures are frightening, sometimes surreal, experiences for people who have them -- and for observers.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/latimes/features/health/~4/446047832" height="1" width="1"/
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A large new study suggests that millions more people could benefit from taking the drugs known as statins because the drugs can significantly lower their risk of heart attacks, strokes and death.
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Differences in size and immune systems between the sexes may explain the disparity. Heart transplant patients are as much as 25% more likely to survive if the sex of the donor is the same as the patient's, researchers said Wednesday.
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