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

China's president was signing dozens of trade and investment deals with communist ally Cuba on Tuesday, part of a Latin America trip on which Chinese businessmen have been snapping up all manner of raw materials. ...more

November 19, 2008

Turns out men and women really are different at heart: New research finds that heart transplant patients have better odds of survival and a lower risk of rejection if they get organs from donors of the same sex. ...more

November 13, 2008

Sophomore Kailey Folsom has been playing soccer since she was 7. This year, for the first time, she's going to be watching from the sidelines. ...more

November 12, 2008

For the first time, researchers have decoded all the genes of a person with cancer and found a set of mutations that may have caused the disease or aided its progression. ...more

November 6, 2008

A Temple Terrace woman filled several prescriptions for Oxycodone and a muscle relaxer by not telling doctors that she had received prior prescriptions for the drugs, Temple Terrace police say. Police arrested Vanessa Kunkle, 31, of Dade City, at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. ...more

November 5, 2008

Miami had no homicides during October, marking the first month in 42 years that no one was slain in the city. ...more

November 3, 2008

Want to lose weight? Try eating. That's one of the strategies being developed by scientists experimenting with foods that trick the body into feeling full. ...more

October 24, 2008

Why is it so hard to fix health care? If we just make all the doctors and hospitals charge the same rates they charge insurance companies, most people could afford health care. ...more

October 18, 2008

University Community Hospital plans to discontinue three patient cancer therapies at the end of this month. ...more

October 15, 2008