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If influenza was a stock, I wouldn't touch it. PETER GROSS, chief medical officer at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, responding to a White House report that warned a resurgence of swine flu - or H1N1 - could kill 30,000 to 90,000 Americans this fall

PETER GROSS, chief medical officer at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, responding to a White House report that warned a resurgence of swine flu - or H1N1 - could kill 30,000 to 90,000 Americans this fall

In her book 'The Philosophical Baby,' psychologist Alison Gopnik says babies are learning and developing much faster than most people realize

Fifteen years since the last discovery of its kind, scientists have finally identified a new set of genes that may contribute to Alzheimer's disease. The three new genes, known as clusterin, complement receptor 1 (CR1) and PICALM, were uncovered by two separate research groups.

Henry the schnoodle just did a remarkable thing. Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. Consider too all the mental work that goes into figuring out what a pointed finger means: paying close attention to a person, recognizing that a gesture reflects a thought, that another animal can even have a thought.