The world’s first ‘bionic’ device to produce co-ordinated hand and arm movement will be fitted in a British hospital today, with the aim of allowing a woman to return to playing netball.

William Hurlbut clicks his laptop, and an x-ray pops up on the projection screen behind him. It’s a picture of a tumor in a woman’s ovary - a ghostly blob floating near the spine.

Rich Karlgaard:
One-third of Los Angeles residents now tell pollsters they are sick of their city. The percentage of L.A. malcontents has doubled in only two years, according to polls cited by Anne Taylor Fleming, a local essayist.

Thailand’s health ministry warned size-obsessed men on Friday to avoid trying to enlarge their penises with liquid injections, saying it could cause deformities.

Honeybees are under attack by the deadly varroa mite. With 40 percent of what we eat pollinated by insects, primarily honeybees, our food supply is in question.

For Americans seeking to get fit on their own time, online personal training is increasingly popular. Eight percent of 75,000 personal trainers in the United States are now coaching clients online.

Women prefer to use text messages to keep in touch with friends, while men like to pick up their phones and make a call. New research from consumer group Mintel found that men are twice as likely as women to talk on their mobile phones.

How do you talk to someone without opening your mouth? Psychics call it telepathy. NASA refers to it as subvocal speech.

The girls were born deaf, but around the beginning of 2004 they had cochlear implants surgically inserted.
Now they can hear.