Changes in a female monkey's social status lead to changes in her immune system, and researchers writing in this week's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Early Edition suggest that the findings may be applicable to humans as well.

Almost universally, red means stop. Red means danger. Red means hot.

By Suzanne Bohan While the details remain thin in the case of a 13-year-old San Mateo girl who on Wednesday abandoned her newborn baby, on the surface the bare facts sounded familiar to Michelle Oberman, a Santa Clara University law professor and an authority on infant abandonment.

By Debra Douglas Ulster's expectant mothers could

EXPERIMENTS where human brain cells are injected into monkey foetuses could lead to a moral nightmare, scientists will be warned this week.