Yahoo is all set to reinvent itself and compete with search engine giant, Google. It has recently struck a deal with micro-blogging site, Twitter with Facebook, the popular social networking site already in its side.

Yahoo wants to cash on the success of Twitter that boasts of 50 million tweets every day.

Weeks before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) presents before Congress an all-inclusive proposal to make broadband affordable and ubiquitous, a survey by the agency has revealed the glaring `digital divide' within the country; noting that as many as 93 million Americans - 80 million adults and 13 million children - lack broadband access at home.

In his all-encompassing half-hour-long Tuesday conversation with investors at the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference in San Francisco, Apple's chief operating officer (COO) Tim Cook went into raptures over the forthcoming iPad tablet computer; briefed the audience about Apple's plans for retail expansion; and gave an overview of Apple's other products.

A research led by Dr. Brian Williams of the Centre for Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis, claims that the Anti-retroviral Treatments can curb the spread of AIDS in the body of the patients, within five years. The treatment costs around $2-3bn per year.

The drug essentially works by reducing the amount of virus in the body fluids.

It has been reported that WellCare Health Plans Inc., has bounced back from the loss in the year 2008 in the fourth quarter which was brought about due to the write - downs that cost them $78 million.

A judge Friday conveyed his disapproval over a plea agreement that would have sent Kristen Diane Parker - the former surgical technician at Denver's Rose Medical Centre accused of exposing hepatitis C infections among patients - to federal prison for 20 years.

The federal judge revealed that a 20 year imprisonment is not enough for the crime.

An American cruise company yesterday revealed that it would donate spare sun loungers and beach furniture to a makeshift hospital for victims of the Haiti earthquake.

Royal Caribbean (RCL) has recently returned to Haiti, dropping tourists from cruise ships on the country's north coast about 60 miles from devastated area of earthquake-stricken capital of Port-au-Prince.

Last year the US President, Barack Obama praised the Mayo Clinic as an exemplary health-care provider with better services and outcomes at low-cost.

Last week Mayo Clinic said that it won’t treat any Medicare patients at one of the primary care clinics in Arizona.

Figures released by the American Heart Association on Thursday have estimated that over the next year, a whopping $503.2 Billion would be spent across the country for treatment of cardiovascular diseases and strokes, which is an increase of 6%, and that too when many of these cases could have been easily prevented.

With 325 murders reported in New York thus far this year, the city's Police Department said on Friday that the city is moving in the direction of a record low number of murders this year, nearly 457; thereby breaking the earlier low set in 2007, that of 497 murders.