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A San Diego drug maker is hoping an infusion of research capital will allow it to continue its work in searching for Parkinson’s disease treatments.

While the number of people diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease worldwide is already thought to be more than four million, a new study says that the world’s largest nations are set to see a doubling of that number within twenty-five years.

Catholic Priests Demand Changes Despite Vatican Threats

A recent poll of Austrians found that ninety-two percent are opposed to the Catholic Church’s requirement that its priests remain celibate—a remarkably high percentage in a nation that is three-quarters Roman Catholic.

Parkinson’s disease affects an estimated four million people worldwide, with as many as one million in the US alone.

The 9/11 heroes who rushed to the site of the World Trade Center attacks were let down by the government agencies in charge of protecting them, according to one prominent official.

Since September 11, 2001, 283 World Trade Center first responders have been diagnosed with cancer and thirty-three have died. Now doctors are unsure how many more might be claimed by the aftereffects of their time at Ground Zero.

In testimony given before the House Committee on Education and Labor, one prominent physician has suggested that the first responders who cleared the WTC site are still in grave danger.

Though the debate over celibacy in the Catholic Church has been ongoing, two recent efforts have thrust the discussion front and center.

Father Hans Kung, a longtime critic of certain Catholic tenets, has renewed his fight with the Catholic Church by telling French newspaper Le Monde that Pope Benedict XVI is too isolated to deal with the issue of celibacy.