WASHINGTON (AP) -- Companies could not use genetic information to make employment or insurance decisions under legislation approved almost unanimously by Congress and headed to the White House....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong is calling on Congress to renew the nation's war on cancer....
The Food and Drug commissioner has written Congress that the agency needs an immediate infusion of $275 million to ensure that imported foods, drugs and medical devices are safe.
There are only about 30 scientists among the 535 senators and representatives in the 110th Congress, but physics is on a roll.
Kate Sheppard: James Hansen's testimony on climate change has made him a celebrity, but it sadly hasn't done much to influence Congress
(AP) -- Congress has asked Embarq Corp. about its work with a company that tracks online subscribers' Web traffic for advertising purposes, part of growing concern about Internet privacy.
President Bush vetoed a bill protecting doctors from a Medicare pay cut, but both houses of Congress overrode the veto with large bipartisan majorities and made the bill a law.
Congress has sent to President Bush a bill to triple money to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world, funding a program credited with saving or prolonging millions of lives.
MIT President Susan Hockfield urged Congress Wednesday to sharply increase federal funding for energy research, saying such a move could help unleash an "energy revolution" capable of resolving ...
Congress moved close to approving a bill that would require health insurance plans to provide treatment of mental illnesses comparable to what they already provide for physical illnesses.
Science reporter Paul Rincon details the goings on at the International Astronautical Congress.
(AP) -- Congress is close to passing legislation that would buy extra time to finalize an agreement intended to save the emerging Internet radio market from a crippling hike in copyright royalty ...
... with the Ensite Array Catheter in Southampton and the procedure will be broadcast to the audience at the auditorium in the Congress at Birmingham during the morning of 20 October 2008.
"I am very ...
Congress canceled funding for a U.S. spysat program to use commercial satellites.
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They then compared what legislators had said about those issues in their campaigns to what they had done in Congress.
Sulkin used different models to evaluate the results, but found that even ...
