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With his family, he immigrated to the United States as a toddler. His mother left her career as a doctor and his father became a janitor at Stanford University to support a dream of educational opportunity for their children.

A long road of hurdles overcome, a Utah couple graduated together from Yale University's School of Medicine this week as the only married pair of their class Monday.

Among factors that predicted the likelihood that patients undergoing bariatric surgery would experience postoperative cardiopulmonary complications were low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and high levels of C-reactive protein, a researcher reported here.

The Laurel Heights UCSF campus at 3333 California St. could be redeveloped as upscale senior housing under plans being submitted by several groups vying to take over the property.

Tracy has agricultural roots and affordable homes, but a new study reveals a less obvious distinction for this Central Valley city: Doctors use internal radiation to treat men for prostate cancer at the highest rate in California, more than four times the state average.

A $10 million research project will focus on what causes babies to be born too early.

A group of conservatives that includes Paul and me have signed a letter opposing the Gang of Eight's immigration bill.

Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Society Explorer in Residence, called Her Deepness by The New Yorker and The New York Times , Living Legend by the Library of Congress, and first "Hero for the Planet" by Time Magazine , will be speaking at Northeastern University on May 22, 2013.

Standing at a podium in front of an audience of psychiatrists, clinicians and scientists, Firdaus Dhabhar brings up a video of his infant son on a large projector screen and presses play.

They didn't win the big, instant-tycoon, retire-to-the-Bahamas lottery prize, but somewhere lurking around San Jose is a $2 million Powerball winner.

Merritt College professor Claudio Duran, right, speaks to students and faculty members during a meeting of Club Altazor on Monday, May, 6, 2013 in Oakland, Calif.

Even though Massachusetts has been a leader in reforming public education, it is clear that more needs to be done.

IT MIMICS the leaping glides of flying fish and needs no external power. The Jump Glider could be the first in a new generation of robots, harnessing aerodynamic lift to travel further than it would if it simply hopped, and without using additional energy.

After the death of Joe Kennedy, Jr during World War II, John moved into the position of oldest son.

A ground-breaking advance in colonoscopy technology signals the future of colorectal care, according to research presented today at Digestive Disease Week .

Time-lapse video of icebreaker traveling through Antarctic seas. Two months of sequences, condensed into less than five minutes.

Make no mistake. The slightly-impossible-to-pronounce acronym CCRMA, standing for the not-terribly-sexy "Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics," is one of the world's hotbeds for innovation in electronic music.

The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills , by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu, Allen Lane, RRPA 20 / Basic Books, RRP$27.99, 240 pages Austerity kills - and on a grand scale.

If you want to change phone companies or you're paying for a lot of unused data, good luck getting out of your two-year contract.

MOOCs dominate recent news and reports in next generation learning, while Southern New Hampshire makes history with competency-based learning.