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The most comprehensive genetic study to date of multiple sclerosis has pinpointed a cluster of genes on chromosome 6 as playing the major role in causing the disorder. The findings will ultimately help doctors to develop better treatments for MS, researchers say. Researcher Margaret Pericak-Vance, MD, director of the Center …

NEW ORLEANS – As rain from Hurricane Rita (search) threatened to once again flood the city, the Army Corps of Engineers was racing to patch New Orleans’ fractured levee system while residents were forced to decide yet again whether to stay or go. Forecasters said the storm that swiped Florida …

A prominent journalist working for an anti-Syrian television station was seriously wounded Sunday when a bomb placed under her car exploded, Lebanese security officials said. May Chidiac (search), news anchor for the private Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. (search), was inside her car when the bomb exploded in the Christian port city …