A Jacksonville couple is donating $21 million to the University of Florida's Shands Cancer Center. ...more

March 2, 2009

Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. ...more

November 19, 2008

An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday. ...more

November 13, 2008

Most inhumanities start small, like the beginning of a tsunami, but then build, as they head toward inevitable and unstoppable destruction. ...more

August 2, 2008

Using stem cells from umbilical cord blood and bone marrow, researchers apparently have cured a fatal genetic disease in a 2-year-old Minneapolis boy, a feat that could open the door for a variety of stem cell treatments. ...more

June 7, 2008

In what's being called a major advance in organ transplants, doctors say they have developed a technique that could free many patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives. ...more

January 24, 2008

Thirty years is a long time. Longer than most wars, mortgages and many marriages. And it is certainly a long time to take a French class. Yet, for 30 years, from 10 a.m. to noon every Wednesday, Kathleen Diamond has been teaching her French class in Alexandria, Va., to many of the same 11 students. ...more

October 15, 2007