Minority stem cell donors needed
I spent more than a decade writing until leaving my job a few years ago to become a full-time minivan mom. I was so content ferrying my daughter to parks and play groups that I often wondered what it would take to coax me back to a keyboard. The answer came, unexpectedly, from my cousin Tami.

AIDS Study Marks 25th Year

A quarter-century ago, more than 6,000 gay men volunteered to participate in a landmark study of what came to be called AIDS. In Los Angeles, 1,600 men volunteered. Only 600 are still alive. The study has allowed researchers to learn much about how HIV is spread, how it destroys the immune system and how some people have natural immunity to HIV.

Bob Dylan is coming our way
On another baseball-park tour, Bob Dylan plays July 28 at Durham Bulls Athletic Park with fellow travelers John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson.
Health experts hunt new swine flu after 7 sickened
Federal health experts expect to find more cases of a unique new form of swine flu as they check people who had contact with seven California and Texas residents diagnosed with the illness.

HEALTH: Final Push to Control Malaria by 2015
WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (IPS)About one million people die every year from malaria, including a child every 30 seconds. Half a billion people are infected annually. Africa alone, according to studies, loses 12 billion dollars in productivity and to treating the disease. And almost all of it is easily preventable.