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The 1998 study linking the MMR vaccine to autism has been utterly debunked. So 13 years later, how many lives have been lost and how much money has been wasted treating the preventable illnesses that fear-mongering led to? Here are some answers.

Need an excuse to raise a glass? A new study finds that alcohol may reduce both the severity of rheumatoid arthritis and the risk of getting it in the first place. But don't overdo it: more research is needed, and excessive drinking can do more harm than good.

King Tut had a pyramid to keep his memory alive, today for the relatively low, low price of $399, immortality seekers can store one gigabyte of digital memories and a DNA sample in a nuclear bomb-proof vault in Gstaad, Switzerland. Forever. "Don't just disappear," cautions the Swiss DNA Bank's...

Human Genome Sciences (HGSI) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) say their experimental lupus drug passed another key treatment goal and they plan on asking for regulatory approval in the first half of 2010. Wall Street and researchers anticipated study data from Bliss-76, hoping it would confirm positive...

It's not easy being first. Biotech company Geron (GERN) had to wait more than a year before getting the green light from federal regulators in January to begin the first study using human embryonic stem cell-based therapies in humans. The early-stage trial is looking at the safety of its drug...

America is already pretty smitten with the First Pooch, but now scientists have a better understanding of what makes Bo Obama so darn cute. The Portuguese Water Dog has variations in three key genes that give the canine and other dogs like him his curly tuxedo coat as well as his "furnishings," or...

A new study declares that vitamins are a waste of time and money. Researchers, Marian Neuhouser of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, who led the study published in Archives of Internal Medicine, said: "To our surprise we found that multivitamins did not lower the risk of the...

The BBC spent two years researching the grim realities of purebred dogs for their documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed, which aired in August. The BBC's big findings were that, much like we've all suspected, lots of pedigree dogs are more likely to be sickly because they're chosen for breeding on...