20 years ago, basketball All-Star Magic Johnson stepped to the microphones at a Los Angeles press conference to tell the world he was HIV-positive. Not a single person watching on Nov 7, 1991 thought he would be around to hold another news conference 20 years later.
We are in an era now, for the the first time, when we can foresee the end of the AIDS epidemic. said an expert speaking about the new pill, Truvada, a drug to prevent HIV infection in healthy people that was just recommended for use by a US advisory panel.
A baby, born with the AIDS virus, appears to have been cured scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi, who's now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.
Kids say the craziest things. Lucky for us, this second grade teacher decided to collect the funniest ones and post them on Instagram.
Devoted husband cooks a year's supply of meals for his wife, before leaving on deployment, when he discovered she didn't have time to eat properly.
The sight this spring of herds of Tibetan antelopes galloping unhindered to breeding grounds at the other side of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, alleviated concerns that the railway would disrupt their migratory-breeding route.
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission honored them and 14 others with medals commending their bravery and quick thinking.
In the largest international dog rescue effort in history, 36 Golden Retrievers were transported from the streets of Istanbul to new homes in America.
A burgeoning movement to make sports more sustainable has signed up 300 professional and college teams and venues to play ball with the environment.
Insulin pills and an artificial pancreas could make life easier, and treatment less expensive, for people with diabetes.
The businessman who vowed to give his $32 billion fortune to charity will start by handing out 10,000 homes and 10,000 cars to needy families in Saudi Arabia.
Grocery stores are brimming with foods packed with healing nutrients—here's how to use them to your advantage and bolster your health the natural way.
Get ready to throw your peace sign up: Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr wants everyone to celebrate his birthday at noon today by saying, "Peace and love."
Most eateries bank on restaurant week to bring in cash, but Baltimore's Tabrizi's restaurant is shutting its doors to welcome homeless folks to dine all week for free.
After 44 years, the actress who played 'Maria' on Sesame Street, is leaving the beloved PBS children's show.
An 18-year old-boy posted a photo on Facebook in hopes that his mother, who he hadn't seen in 15 years, would find him. It worked.
Lego's half century of toy dominance was built on petroleum-based plastic. But now the company is investing millions into trying to get rid of it.
In a video for Vanity Fair, Channing Tatum is given thirty seconds to render seven dance steps. (Our favorite was the hula...)
With signature dreadlocks he hasn't cut in 19 years, underdog Dustin Brown just stunned the tennis world by knocking out the 10th ranked player in the world at Wimbledon.
70 years ago as troops from Nazi Germany marched into Czechoslovakia, the British diplomat Sir Nicholas Winton transported 669 Jewish children aboard eight trains to England rescuing them from almost certain death.