No longer hampered by legal challenges, California's stem cell agency announced $271 million in grants Wednesday to build new research laboratories.

The San Francisco singer-songwriter leads Rupa & the April Fishes in a 1 p.m. concert today that kicks off the 2008 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. The downtown arts festival offers hundreds of free performances, including classical, jazz and world music, theater, traditional and contemporary dance, children’s and family programs. Weekly events continue through October.

A doctor whose molecular research has improved treatments for a variety of diseases and another whose work may lead to breakthroughs in degenerative and other age-related disorders, were awarded the nation's richest prize in medicine and biomedical research on Friday.

A city outside California has for the first time been named the sootiest in the nation, one of the categories the American Lung Association uses to determine the most polluted cities in the country.

Women's life expectancy declined significantly in 180 U.S. counties, mostly in the deep South and Appalachia, between 1983 and 1999, according to a study being released Tuesday.

With apologies to Mark Twain, reports of the death of the Pap smear are premature.

Late night television infomercials seem to have a cheap fix for anything: lose weight, banish cellulite or improve conditions like diabetes, arthritis and insomnia.

Late night television infomercials seem to have a cheap fix for anything: lose weight, banish cellulite or improve conditions like diabetes, arthritis and insomnia.

Max Mair has an appetite for steak but a mouth built for mashed potatoes.

Here are four reasons people and events will go elsewhere: