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WASHINGTON – The pace of U.S. housing construction rose more than expected in May after three months of declines as groundbreaking on both single-family and multifamily units jumped, a government report showed on Tuesday. The Commerce Department said May housing starts rose 5.0 percent in May to a 1.957 million …

NEW YORK – DNA testing is virtually infallible when used to determine a person’s identity, but how reliable are the people responsible for conducting the investigations? That question is at the heart of the case of two college students, Laura VanRyn and Whitney Cerak, who were involved in an April …

The antidepressant drug Prozac does not help prevent relapses in patients recovering from anorexia nervosa, new research shows. Researchers from Columbia University and University of Toronto compared treatment with Prozac (fluoxetine) to that with placebo in patients who had recently regained weight after intensive hospital-based treatment. They found no significant …