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WASHINGTON – A joint session of Congress resumed meeting Thursday evening and quickly finalized certification of President Bush’s (search) 286 Electoral College votes to Democrat John Kerry’s (search) 251. A candidate needs 270 votes to win the presidential election. Kerry running mate John Edwards received one Electoral vote. The certification …

WASHINGTON – Federal officials involved in a U.S.-funded study in Uganda endangered the lives of hundreds of patients testing an AIDS (search) drug because of careless and negligent research practices, a government whistleblower said Tuesday. Dr. Jonathan Fishbein (search) said officials at the National Institutes of Health (search) overlooked safety …

The compound that gives the popular Indian spice curry its mustard yellow color may ward off Alzheimer’s disease (search). Researchers at UCLA have shown that the curry pigment curcumin (search) slows the formation of, and even destroys, accumulated plaque deposits in mouse brains. Brain plaque (search), sticky clumps of beta-amyloid …