Political Campaigns Get Outside Money — Lots Of It

Donors are using cash to weigh in on ideological national issues, instead of solely local ones.

Medical Records Could Yield Answers On Fracking

Researchers plan to mine 10 years of data on people who live near the Marcellus Shale gas wells.

Why Terrorists So Often Go For Planes

There are some indications they may now be looking for other, softer targets.

All in the family: Nino Giarratano (left), the head baseball coach at the University of San Francisco, joins hands with his father, Mickey Giarratano, after the transplant of a kidney from son to father at Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver last year.

All in the family: Nino Giarratano (left), the head baseball coach at the University of San Francisco, joins hands with his father, Mickey Giarratano, after the transplant of a kidney from son to father at Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver last year.

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Poll: Americans Back Compensating Organ Donors

Federal law bans payments for organs. But about 60 percent of Americans support health care credits as compensation for organ donors, the NPR-Thomson Reuters Health Poll finds.

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