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One day late last summer, 2-year-old Kyle Allgood drank a smoothie blended with fresh spinach. Soon after, he developed bloody diarrhea and became seriously ill. Five days later, the toddler [...]

Two years ago, doctors told Mark Origer that he had about three months to live. Origer, 51, had a deadly from of skin cancel: a disease in which abnormal cells [...]

Sixteen-year-old Michael Chau dreams of becoming an Olympic figure skater. Four years ago, he moved from Minnesota to Florida to train with renowned coach Kerry Leiteh. Michael practices from 9 [...]

Thirteen-year-old Alex Denk of Maplewood, N.J., does a lot of his homework while catching up on TV sports news. And while talking to friends, he listens to music on his [...]

Herbert Reed used to run 2 to 5 miles a day and hoist 250-pound barbells. But ever since his 30-day stint manning a prison in Iraq three years ago, Reed [...]

In April 2005, Star magazine boasted a cover showing actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie walking together on a beach. 'Brad and Angelina Caught Together!' the cover screamed. Well, not [...]

The bodies in the labs belonged to teenagers who had died suddenly in car accidents, had been killed, or had committed suicide. Upon examining the bodies, researchers noticed that a [...]

Jaysen Bennington began to struggle in school in second grade. He had trouble paying attention in class, often lost his homework, and rarely finished an assignment on his own. 'He [...]

When 15-year-old Benjamin Garbowit meets you for the first time, he may pepper you with interesting questions, but might not look you in the eye. Ask him a question and [...]

Six years ago, David Geres, a high school sophomore from Vernon, Conn., accidentally took a double dose of a drug he'd been prescribed to control hyperactivity. The extra pill gave [...]

In the spring of 2004, Taylor Torrence was a softball star. The seventh grader from Brandon, Miss., played on a tournament team that practiced six hours a week and competed [...]

Some of the rats at a lab at the University of California, Irvine, used to walk funny. Their limp hind legs dragged behind them. and their tails, normally high in [...]

A Pretty, energetic cheerleader and member of the high school track team in Pennington Gap, Va.--that was Lindsay Myers before a small tablet dubbed Oxy changed her life. At 16, [...]

When medical researchers go to work at a lab in Atlanta, they don blue hazmat suits to protect themselves against their subject: the Variola virus. Variola is the highly contagious [...]

In 1994, Christopher Simmons was sentenced to death for murdering a Missouri woman when he was 17 years old. Simmons's lawyers appealed the decision, and last summer the Missouri Supreme [...]

Two years ago, David Bird, 19, found himself unable to sit down at the dinner table on Thanksgiving. He had a lump on his rear end that became so painful, [...]

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Costenero of Carol Stream, III., has had searing headaches twice a week for most of her life. The throbbing pain in her forehead was sometimes so intense that [...]

In the 1997 science-fiction movie Gattaca, lead character Vincent Freeman is one of the 'In-Valids.' When Freeman was a baby, a test of his DNA revealed that he would grow [...]

On Thanksgiving Day two years ago, 19-rear-old David Bird could not sit down to eat. He had a strange lump on his rear end that hurt badly when he sat. [...]

Inspiring the admiration and furry of a nation, Dr. Kari Stefansson is seeking the genetic of disease by scanning Icelands's DNA. AS A DOCTOR, KARI STEFANSSON has watched patients die [...]

An experimental treatment offers new hope for cancer patients - without debilitating side effects. One day last August, a package arrived at Pramod Srivastava's lab. It was a gift that [...]

Getting medicine into the body could soon be as easy as slapping on a bandage strip. Chemical Engineer Robert Langer has spent 'the last 14 years developing an ingenious new [...]

Want to find a new wonder drug, a useful industrial chemical, or even a better laundry detergent? Try looking in the dirt. Maryland Biologist Ralph Collins likes to drive across [...]