Bhaskar Prasad

A medical privacy breach at Stanford University’s hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. has led to the public posting of medical records for 20,000 emergency room patients, which includes names and diagnosis codes, on a commercial Web site for nearly a year, as confirmed by the hospital.

Sep 09, 2011

A defunct NASA science satellite will be plunging back to Earth soon, sparking concerns that some debris might shower down on populated areas.

Sep 09, 2011

A meteorite shower is the source of complex and heavy elements such as gold on Earth as per a new study.

Sep 09, 2011

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recommended approval of a major new anticoagulant drug for stroke prevention, rejecting an FDA staff analysis that found flaws in the study of the medicine.

Sep 09, 2011

New analysis of bones that are nearly 2 million years old suggests they come from a species that may be a leading candidate for an ancient human ancestor, paleontologists say.

Sep 09, 2011

Five-time U.S. Open champion Roger Federer beat 11th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday night in a quarter-final interrupted by rain for about 1 1/2 hours in the first set.

Sep 08, 2011

World No. 4 Andy Murray reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open on Thursday with a 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 victory over U.S. wild card Donald Young.

Sep 08, 2011

Serena Williams appears to have reached the summit of her form in the 2011 U.S Open. In the quarterfinal match today she will play against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

Sep 08, 2011

NASA needs to keep more astronauts on staff than planned as per a new report.

Sep 08, 2011

A study published this week in Geophysical Research Letters disproves recent claims that clouds are the root cause of climate change.

Sep 08, 2011

A nationwide law enforcement crackdown has charged 91 people with participating in Medicare fraud schemes involving $295 million in false billing.

Sep 08, 2011

At the U.S Open, the result at the end of last day was the same as the day before. No tennis matches were finished.

Sep 08, 2011

A Russian passenger airliner chartered by one of the country's best-known hockey teams and carrying numerous veterans of the NHL crashed during takeoff near the city of Yaroslavl on Wednesday, killing all but two of the 45 people on board.

Sep 08, 2011

Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon, suffered minor injuries when she was struck by a car while jogging Wednesday, Santa Monica police said.

Sep 08, 2011

Carol Bartz, who was fired as Yahoo! Inc.’s chief executive officer, is rumored to receive a payout in the range of $10 million after less than three years on the job.

Sep 08, 2011

Aggressive use of cardiovascular drugs is much more effective in preventing a recurrence of stroke than deploying a stent to prop open narrowed arteries in the brain, a U.S. government-funded study reports.

Sep 08, 2011

Patients who are referred by their doctors to Weight Watchers were found to lose about twice as much weight as those on a standard weight-loss program over a 12-month period as reported in a study in The Lancet.

Sep 07, 2011

A study finds that middle-age women who indulge in one drink a day or less on a regular basis may have a better chance of being healthier when they're older.

Sep 07, 2011

In a demonstration, E. Charles Sykes from the Tufts University, Boston, operated an electric motor made entirely of a single molecule. Measuring just a nanometer in length, according to a report in the New Scientist, the tiny motor has more substance than size.

Sep 07, 2011

Actor and comedian Eddie Murphy will host the 84th annual Academy Awards, producers Brett Ratner and Don Mischer said.

Sep 07, 2011

The Dutch government is widening its investigation into an Internet security breach in an effort to learn whether the private data of Dutch citizens, many of whom file income tax returns online, had been compromised.

Sep 07, 2011

Chaz Bono has made it clear that Dancing With the Stars is a dance show, where, like the other contestants, he intends to dance.

Sep 07, 2011

The cameras which are overseen by an Arizona State University professor have captured the sharpest images ever taken from orbit of three Apollo landing sites.

Sep 07, 2011

At least nine persons were killed and 45 others were injured as a power explosion rocked the Delhi High Court, India, on Wednesday.

Sep 07, 2011

Seven years ago Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor for conceive a baby, and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of his half siblings - an extended family for modern times.

Sep 07, 2011

The Food and Drug Administration has recommended against an immediate approval for Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson’s anti-clotting drug, Xarelto, as a treatment to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Sep 07, 2011

Babesiosis, a potentially life-threatening tick-borne disease, is a rare but grave complication that can be transmitted through blood transfusions, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns.

Sep 07, 2011

The prevalence of smoking in the U.S. has fallen over the last five years, but not at a steady rate, as per a study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Sep 06, 2011

A convoy of vehicles carrying forces loyal to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi has crossed into neighboring Niger, as anti-Gadhafi fighters continue to amass outside one of the ousted leader's last strongholds.

Sep 06, 2011