Enlarge Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images Facebook also has given itself more leeway on how long it keeps information it collects, saying it will retain data for “as long as it is necessary to provide services.” Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images Facebook also has given itself more leeway on how long it keeps information it collects, saying it will

The President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, the nation’s oldest abortion rights organization, will step down in January, the group said today. AP Nancy Keenan. In a statement, Nancy Keenan said she would focus her last eight months “on helping pro-choice candidates win elections.” But perhaps most interesting is what she told The Washington Post’s Ezra

Shortly before President Obama voiced his support for gay marriage, Vice President Joe Biden apologized to the president for comments that led him to speed up his public pronouncement. Biden and Obama spoke in the Oval Office on Wednesday, a person familiar with the exchange said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the private

The first drug shown to prevent HIV infection won the endorsement of a panel of federal advisers Thursday, clearing the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes AIDS. In a series of votes, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended approval of the daily pill Truvada for

Enlarge Spencer Platt/Getty Images President Obama was on a TV monitor at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, a key historic site of the gay-rights movement. Spencer Platt/Getty Images President Obama was on a TV monitor at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, a key historic site of the gay-rights movement. The 2012

Enlarge Ronald Dumont/Getty Images Clothes designer Mary Quant, one of the leading lights of the British fashion scene in the 1960’s, having her hair cut by another fashion icon, hairdresser Vidal Sassoon in 1964. Ronald Dumont/Getty Images Clothes designer Mary Quant, one of the leading lights of the British fashion scene in the 1960’s, having

Enlarge iStockphoto.com Over in the U.K. there’s a set of principles being floated in support of collaboration between the drug industry and doctors. A sample of the dos and don’ts for doctors reads a little like dating advice: “Don’t establish blanket policies denying interaction with industry or regard it merely as a source of funding.

Images_of_Money/Flickr How much would you wager on the constitutionality of the sweeping federal health law? The stakes are high in the U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of the 2010 health law, as countless commentators have observed. In some circles, however, the gambling metaphor has been pushed to its logical conclusion. Bernstein Research stock analyst Ana Gupte