Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have engineered an artificial kidney that they believe holds promise for shortening organ transplant waiting lists.According to BBC News...
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A powerful spring storm unleashed tornadoes and winds strong enough to peel the roofs from homes in the Deep South and heaped snow and ice on the Midwest, killing three people and leaving thousands wi
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a stark warning to North Korea on Friday not to test-fire a mid-range missile, while tamping down anxiety caused by a new U.S. intelligence report suggesti
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President Barack Obama's new plan to raise Medicare premiums for upper-income seniors would create five new income brackets to squeeze more revenue for the government from the top tiers of retire
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Jonathan Winters, the comic whose zany, largely improvised characters were a television mainstay in the 1960s and 70s, died Thursday night of natural causes in his Montecito, Calif., home, ABC News co
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Abortion-rights supporters are making one final attempt to derail strict new regulations that they claim would force most of Virginia's 20 abortion clinics to close.
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The National Hockey League has taken what amounts to the strongest acceptance of homosexuality in professional sports by announcing a program Thursday that aims to teach its players that gays should n
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The BBC is in a bind after opponents of Margaret Thatcher pushed the song "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" to the top of the British charts in a posthumous protest over her divisive policies.
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Fire Capt. Art Hurtado was making an off-duty visit to a home improvement store when he encountered a horrific sight - a man had deliberately cut his own arms to the bone with handsaws.
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