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Elderly patients with dementia were significantly more likely to die prematurely if taking certain anti-psychotic drugs, the government said Monday in an advisory to health care workers and patients. The Food and Drug Administration is asking manufacturers of atypical anti-psychotic drugs (search) to add to their labeling a boxed warning …

WASHINGTON – Researchers are aiming to learn more about how the Earth was populated by collecting and analyzing genetic samples from 100,000 people around the globe. The five-year Genographic Project (search), being announced Wednesday, will use sophisticated laboratory and computer analysis of DNA to figure out the patterns in which …

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A Pakistan embassy official who was kidnapped in Iraq two weeks ago was freed Sunday, the chief Pakistani government spokesman said. Malik Mohammed Javed (search) was abducted April 9 after he left his residence in Baghdad to attend prayers at a mosque. The Pakistani government said after …