The soil of Easter Island could possibly be housing the cure to Alzheimer’s disease. A drug, known as rapamycin, was recently discovered in the ground on the island. The drug has already shown that it can extend the lives of animals and now it is showing promise that it could reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. David Western, founding executive director of Kenya’s African Conservation Centre, has been named the 2010 winner of the World Ecology Award.

College students on the brink of making their own health care decisions, choices that they will likely live with for years, are a public that stands to be affected by any reform being proposed in Washington, D.C. So what do University of Missouri-St. Louis students know about the various proposals currently being debated in Congress, and what are their opinions on the matter?

The young took over the Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall Wednesday night when talk of Loveline’s Dr. Drew Pinsky’s appearance was made known throughout campus.