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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.