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Another Cancer Surgery For Chavez : Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will have a lesion surgically removed from his pelvis within the next few days, the WSJ reports . Chavez, who has already undergone two other surgeries for cancer, claimed the disease... 

A team of researchers is working on a hypothesis of “how do babies make jokes and become friends, even when they are too small to speak”. The research team from Australia University has spent 2 years observing the behavior of young children. It has... 

The manner in which we perceive the world helps us in ascertaining how our brain processes the sensory information. There was a meeting this week in Vancouver during which psychologist Daphne Maurer reports about a study which proves that the vision progresses... 

Few college students may be just 1 in 4 who show symptoms of serious depression and stress receives adequate treatment and care. Present services of health care on the campus might not be sufficient for giving optimum quality intellectual health care,... 

The diminishing rate of smoking is not probable to be a chief contributor to the latest enhance in the incidence of obesity. Although quitting smoking may result some individuals to put on weight, the amount of weight they put on will be probably small,... 

After all the gluttonous Mardi Gras celebrations today, Lent, the Catholic season of penance, will start tomorrow. Many Catholics give up a vice during this 40-day period, and even if you don’t do it for religious reasons you may find that giving... 

Bérénice Bejo, Octavia Spencer, Melissa McCarthy, Jessica Chastain, and Janet McTeer are the nominees for best supporting actress at this year’s Academy Awards. We can’t even begin to imagine how nervous this talented group of actresses... 

Alex Gorsky in 2010. Johnson & Johnson named Alex Gorsky as its next CEO, succeeding William Weldon, the WSJ reports . Both Gorsky and Sherilyn McCoy were in late 2010 appointed to an expanded “office of the chairman” and given new duties... 

New supplies of two currently hard-to-find cancer drugs are on the way, according to the FDA. As Dow Jones Newswires reports , the FDA said it would allow the temporary importation of Lipodox, made by Sun Pharma Global FZE and distributed by Caraco Pharmaceutical... 

All the hype around genetic testing has doctors worried they’ve overlooked the most basic — and for now, the most effective — genomic tool at their disposal: A few questions about their patients’ families. As the WSJ reports today...