Staff Reporter

Cigarette smoking by U.S. adults reaches record low: CDC

Medicine & Technology Nov 27, 2014

A woman smokes a cigarette in this illustration picture taken in Paris, October 8, 2014.

Breast cancer recurrence risk down since 1980s

Nov 27, 2014

The world's largest awareness ribbon made of flowers is seen from above during the UAE leg of the Avon Walk around the world for Breast Cancer Awareness walkathon in Zaabeel park in Dubai, November 16, 2007.

U.S. approves GSK's purchase of Novartis vaccine business: companies

Nov 27, 2014

The signage for the GlaxoSmithKline building is pictured in Hounslow, west London June 18, 2013.

U.S. government says 462,125 people signed up for 2015 Obamacare plans

Nov 27, 2014

A man looks over the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare) signup page on the HealthCare.gov website in New York in this October 2, 2013 photo illustration. The federal government's portal logged over 2.8 million visitors by afternoon October 2, largely in an attempt to sign up for Obamacare.

East Coast storm threatens Thanksgiving travel

Nov 27, 2014

Cars make their way through the Washington bridge in New York November 26, 2014.

Physicists solve mystery of why cats rule, dogs drool

Nov 25, 2014

A Greyhound dog drinks water after a race in Santiago city, in this file picture taken March 1, 2014.

Multi-national crew reaches space station

Nov 25, 2014

International Space Station (ISS) crew Anton Shkaplerov of Russia matches palm with his daughter Kira from a bus window before the launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket at the Baikonur cosmodrome November 23, 2014.

U.N. to miss Dec 1 Ebola target due to rising Sierra Leone cases

Nov 25, 2014

A health worker fixes another health worker's protective suit in the Aberdeen district of Freetown, Sierra Leone, October 14, 2014.

U.S. introduces menu calorie labeling to fight obesity

Nov 25, 2014

A pizza is served in Chicago January 20, 2010.

EU digital tsar warns monopolists; Google foes play down call for break-up

Nov 25, 2014

A Google search page is reflected in sunglasses in this photo illustration taken in Brussels May 30, 2014.

New York's Cuomo warns snow-hit Buffalo of risk to roofs

Nov 25, 2014

Wreckage lays at a collapsed house following a massive snow storm in Alden, New York November 24, 2014.

Grand jury decides against charges in Ferguson shooting, unrest erupts

Nov 25, 2014

REFILE - CLARIFYING CAPTION - A police car burns on the street after a grand jury returned no indictment in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri November 24, 2014.