
Education woes seen as Achilles' heel of Brazil
There's a storage room just off a university lab that gives students more experience than many can handle: Skinned pigs and cats, disembodied cow ...

Long-term care in aging US: Not for me, poll says
We're in denial: Americans underestimate their chances of needing long-term care as they get older — and are taking few steps to get ready. A new poll ...
UK study: Violence more likely among vets, troops
Young men who have served in the British military are about three times more likely than civilians to have committed a violent offense, researchers ...

Your chances of dying by 2023? Test offers a clue
Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Here are some bad signs: getting winded walking several blocks, smoking, and having trouble ...

ADB president nominated to head Japan central bank
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe vowed to push ahead with more aggressive monetary easing as he Thursday nominated Haruhiko Kuroda to head the ...

Greeks snatch urban metal to get through crisis
When Greece adopted the euro, it poured billions into modernizing its infrastructure, building spectacular bridges, highways, and a brand new rail ...

No one fix to slow hospital readmission epidemic
More than 1 million Americans wind up back in the hospital only weeks after they left for reasons that could have been prevented — a revolving door ...

Aging America: Elder abuse, use of shelters up
She raises her hands to her snow-white hair in a gesture of frustrated bewilderment, then slowly lowers them to cover eyes filling with tears.

Changing family dynamic may lead to tax relief
Members of the sandwich generation — caught between supporting elderly parents whose assets are nearly exhausted and adult children without jobs — ...

China requiring people to visit their aged parents
Visit your parents. That's an order. So says China, whose national legislature on Friday amended its law on the elderly to require that adult children ...

Help at hand when elderly relative's health fails
Marnie Schwartz was in California, a lawyer raising two toddlers. She was in no position to move across the country to care for her mother, who was ...

Illegal immigration drops after decade-long rise
New census data released Thursday affirm a clear and sustained drop in illegal immigration, ending more than a decade of increases. The number of ...