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Less than a year ago, Paul Janeway was about to give up his dream of playing music for a living.

About three years ago, Matt King tried to qualify for what is now the News Sentinel Open and also played in an eGolf Tour event.

Tuition could be going up for the sixth straight year for the three-campus University of Alabama system.

Indiana's chief transportation official will once again call Mitch Daniels his boss.

The Chicago White Sox announced today that they have signed Tim Anderson, their first-round pick in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft.

One top Purdue University official is on the way out and a former Mitch Daniels' state appointee is on the way in -- pending approval by a state ethics panel.

Under fire from researchers and ethicists, the U.S. government agency responsible for protecting patients involved in scientific studies is backing away from a decision to sanction the leaders of a clinical trial involving premature infants after finding that the researchers failed to disclose the trial's full risks.

Mid Coast Hospital is pleased to announce the addition of Miguel R. Arguedas, MD, MPH to its medical staff.

"Church became all about ceremony, handholding, and kumbaya," Phil said with a look of disgust.

As older folks are wont to say, "If it's not one thing it's another" - and sometimes it's both.

The University of Michigan Health System may have more cash on hand than The Ohio State University 's Wexner Medical Center but its rainy day funds are decreasing, according to media reports.

In the United States, some very premature babies are swaddled in sterile plastic wrap to keep their body temperature from dropping dangerously.

The Lupus Foundation of America, the only national force dedicated to solving the cruel mystery of lupus, announced recipients of five new summer fellowships and the Foundation's first-ever Career Development Award.

American flies nonstop from Miami in just under two hours; no nonstops from Fort Lauderdale.

May 31, 2013 -- The Endurant AAA stent graft system from Medtronic, Inc. continues to distinguish itself, with new data on the device for the endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms demonstrating durable clinical performance through three years of patient follow-up. Presented at the Society for Vascular Surgery's "Vascular Annual ... (more)

That Goyte song you've heard a thousand times while waiting in line at Starbucks for your venti soy latte? Turns out it could trigger malware on your phone.

This all-suite hotel in Birmingham is adjacent to the University of Alabama Birmingham and minutes from the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.

Main Category: Immune System / Vaccines Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 22 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT Parasitic wasps switch off the immune systems of fruit flies by draining calcium from the flies' blood cells, a finding that offers new insight into how pathogens break through a host's defenses.