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Army Staff Sgt. Anthony Houston, and Staff Sgt. Travis Gilbert, both from the Michigan Army National Guard's 1225th Corps Support Battalion, watch 3-year-old therapy dog, Lugnut, do a trick Aug. 4, 2011, at Camp Atterbury, Ind. The two Soldiers recently returned with their unit from a 10-month deployment in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Timor Leste has a high total fertility rate

A key challenge in fighting malnutrition has been the vast and often conflicting evidence and advice on nutrition information (file photo)

Villagers in North Darfur with water rollers distributed by the UN Mission

Early morning cigarettes are a proxy for the level of addiction, researchers say.

Woman who took a daily soy pill had no less bone loss after two years than others who took a sugar pill, a study found.

Serotonin-producing cells in the mouse brain play an essential role in maintaining a healthy balance in body temperature and breathing. The finding might help to shed light on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other disorders linked to abnormal serotonin activity.

Jordan, 16, from Bexhill, UK, has Proteus syndrome, an extremely rare overgrowth disorder that affects his fingers, spine and neck. At 14, he elected to undergo above-the-knee amputations of his legs, which had become severely affected by the condition, and now walks with prosthetic legs. Courtesy of the Proteus Syndrome Foundation UK.

About 1 in 3 candidates for kidney transplantation has a condition that causes their bodies to immediately reject transplanted organs. A new treatment promises to boost transplant success by “desensitizing” these patients to foreign human tissue. The treatment could lead to thousands more kidney transplants every year.