Analyzing medical records from thousands of patients, statisticians have devised a statistical model for predicting what other medical problems a patient might encounter.

Invisibility, once the subject of magic or legend, is slowly becoming reality.

Mice and monkeys don't develop diseases in the same way that humans do. Nevertheless, after medical researchers have studied human cells in a Petri dish, they have little choice but to move on to study mice and primates.

Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower.

SEATTLE, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Washington State's surgical community announces today the kickoff of the Strong for Surgery initiative.