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An effort to cure irritable bowel syndrome may have given us a drug that will cure baldness. There's already a move in the works to turn it into a marketable product.

Voters will choose the state's next governor in a special election Tuesday. On the ballot are the man who has been acting governor, Democratic state Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, and GOP businessman Bill Maloney. But Republicans are trying to make the race a referendum on someone else: President Obama.

Some religious conservatives say they can't get tenure, can't keep their jobs and are booted out of graduate school programs because of their views. But others say a spate of lawsuits is probably a smoke screen for academics who shouldn't get tenure for other reasons.

Pakistan is under pressure from the U.S. and its neighbor India to show that it's willing to go after militant groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, which India blames for the Mumbai attacks. Hassan Abbas is a research fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center Center for Science and International Affairs. He tells Steve Inskeep that a confrontation over the Mumbai attacks would destabilize Pakistan's new democratic government.

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Last Saturday, just 48 hours before he was due to leave the country, American international aid expert Warren Weinstein was kidnapped in Pakistan's Punjab region. There's been no word since, not even from his abductors.

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla have discovered two new antibodies to HIV that they plan to exploit in the development of a potential AIDS vaccine, it was announced today.

Once on the brink of extinction, Mexican gray wolves are staging a comeback. A conservation center in San Diego is helping with the effort to reintroduce them to the wild.

Chronic back pain is among the most common reasons people see the doctor. Now, a new study finds that massage is an effective treatment for lower back pain — with benefits lasting six months or longer.

It's not uncommon for an outgoing governor or president to issue pardons at the end of his final term in office. But legal experts say that what former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour did contributes to a public perception that justice can be short-circuited.