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(Reuters) - A new type of asthma drug meant to attack the underlying causes of the respiratory disease slashed episodes by 87 percent in a mid-stage trial, making it a potential game changer for patients with moderate to severe disease, researchers said...

Ruth Butterfield Thomas, died on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. She was born Nov. 20, 1925, in Evansville, Ind., where she grew up and attended Bosse High School. In 1943, she went to DePauw University and then Purdue University graduating with a B.S. in 1947....

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996:...

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Scientists' assertion that the advance in therapeutic cloning announced on Wednesday could not and would not pave the way to cloning a baby did little to assuage critics of the research. The research "will...

Aberdeen: Funeral services for Marvin Volzke, 83, of Aberdeen will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 11, 2013, at St. John Lutheran Church in Selby. Burial will be at Selby Memorial Gardens under the direction of Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge....

 Funeral services for Marvin Volzke, 83, of Aberdeen will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 11, 2013, at St. John Lutheran Church in Selby. Burial will be at Selby Memorial Gardens under the direction of Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge. Visitation will...

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While USC conducted a nationwide search for a dean for its school of medicine, Dr. Stephen J. Ryan stepped in as interim dean in 1991, expecting to serve for six months. He held the job a record 13 years. During his tenure as dean, it became known as...

On the afternoon of April 3, Winchester native Michael McGuire’s friend dropped him off at the pier in Ventura, Calif. There, McGuire dipped his toe in the Pacific Ocean, got on his bike and headed east. On his way, he passed a sign in Bishop,...

May 3 (Reuters) - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc's first-quarter results beat analysts' estimates for the seventh straight quarter as the sales of its eye drug Eylea continued to gather pace, and the company raised its 2013 sales estimate for the drug....

They call themselves a "toy store" for the blind, but the Florida Reading & Vision Technology Center acknowledges its tough task of helping blind people live more like sighted people. "It's a difficult population to reach," said Lesa Kretschmer, the...

Leland H. Yada, 82, of Redfield died Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at Eastern Star Home in Redfield. His funeral will be Saturday, April 27, 2013, at 11 a.m. at United Methodist Church in Redfield. The Rev. Stephen Perry will officiate. After a time for...