Peter Gorner

Is the Kevorkian project dead?" Dr. Harold Klawans, asked rhetorically. "Not yet. Unlike most things with Jack, the project is never dead! Klawans, the Chicago neurologist and author, saw his...

Vowing to stay in the race as she fights breast cancer, Penny Severns, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, faced questions about her health Monday with confidence and humor. "Unlike...

The O.J. Simpson murder case could boil down to a titanic clash between silver-tongued lawyers and modern forensic science represented by a DNA fingerprinting technique that won the Nobel Prize...

Widespread advocacy in the fight against breast cancer is a relatively new phenomenon. "There has been a fundamental change in breast cancer over the last two years," said Fran Visco,...

Responding to feelings of hopelessness over the AIDS epidemic, the Clinton administration Tuesday announced a new plan to "refocus and re-energize our best minds for a concerted attack on this...

Scientists are racing to find the genes that cause progeria and Werner`s syndrome, rare and lethal genetic diseases that force victims to live out shortened lives in the bodies of...

Although the physical changes of aging appear to be the same for everyone, scientists realize there are a number of aging processes and that they behave differently in each person....

Organ transplant physicians sought to avert ''needless panic'' Friday as the government tracked down six-year-old donated tissues from a Virginia man with AIDS that may have infected as many as...

The Human Genome Project-biology`s equivalent of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb or the Apollo moon landing program-is a $3 billion effort to open the biological book of...