Plants cool three million square feet of rooftops throughout the city. Wind, hydropower and biofuels provide one-fifth of its energy. And last year, the mayor announced one of the country's most ambitious plans to slash greenhouse-gas emissions.
NEW YORK—Doctors thought that combining two newer drugs that more precisely attack cancer would help people with advanced colon cancer. Instead, it made the cancer worse and made the patients more miserable, a study found.
January 1, 2009 was the anniversary of the Smoke-Free Illinois Act. Therefore, I thought it appropriate to talk about the reasons you should not smoke.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— FBI agents searched the home of a onetime leading suspect in the 1982 murders of seven people who swallowed tainted Tylenol as part of a review of the unsolved case, a federal official said.
ATLANTA—Kentucky and West Virginia — where people traditionally smoke the most — have the highest death rates from smoking, a new federal study has found.
NEW YORK—This summer, a U.S. biotech company says it plans to start the world’s first study of a treatment based on human embryonic stem cells—a long-awaited project aimed at spinal cord injury.
LOS ANGELES — Cleaner air over the past two decades has added nearly five months to average life expectancy in the United States, according to a federally funded study.
WASHINGTON— In a long-expected move, President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option, officials told The Associated Press on
