Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards of Britain has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine

Test-tube baby pioneer Edwards wins medicine Nobel

Mammogram debate: Swedish study refutes US advice, says screening lowers death risk in 40s

New mammogram study stirs debate for women in 40s

For torn knee ligament, physical therapy might help athletes avoid surgery, study says

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Test-tube kids face higher cancer risk, first big study says, but not likely due to procedure

cancer

Danish research shows obese young men face higher risk of premature death

Obesity
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US scientist Rita Colwell wins Stockholm Water Prize for cholera research

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Actor Michael J. Fox named honorary doctor in Sweden for Parkinson’s awareness work

Parkinson's patients get

‘Alternative Nobel’ to activists from Congo, Australia, New Zealand and Canada

Congo forest protector shares alternative Nobel

JOHANNESBURG — Rene Ngongo, honored with the “alternative Nobel” this week, grew up in a Congo where he could marvel at the wealth of animals and trees.

‘Alternative Nobel’ to activists from Congo, Australia, New Zealand

‘Alternative Nobel’ to Africa, New Zealand

STOCKHOLM — Two activists from Congo and New Zealand and a doctor from Australia on Tuesday won the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “alternative Nobel,” for work to protect rain forests, improve women’s health and rid the world of nuclear weapons.

2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel for studies of the protein-making factories within cells

2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel chemistry prize

NEW YORK — Two Americans and an Israeli won a Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for creating detailed blueprints of the protein-making machinery within cells, research that’s being used to develop new antibiotics.

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:

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