Life is tough these days at NASA, the space agency that can’t launch anyone into space. It wrestles with basic questions: Where to go? How to get there? When? And for what purpose? It killed a plan to return to the moon and now is building a jumbo rocket to go to . . . well, it’s unclear. Maybe to an asteroid: a rock to be named later. Read full article > >

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NASA’s science missions bring the universe into sharper focus even as agency struggles with manned flight

While Republicans scoff at health-care compromise.

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Catholic Group Backs Obama

On a chilly afternoon at a community clinic in Southeast Washington, three young doctors are busily laying the foundation for the health-care law’s success. Jacob Edwards flips through a manual on skin conditions, diagnosing a rash that looks like chicken pox. Jessica O’Babatunde consults her supervisor on treating an adolescent’s obesity, which is literally off-the-charts. And Julie Krueger peppers 3-year-old Daphauni with questions at her physical: How do you spell your name? What did you eat for breakfast? What’s your favorite vegetable? (Cheese.) Read full article > >

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Success of health reform hinges on hiring 30,000 primary care doctors by 2015

After escaping from L.A. mental health clinic.

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Madonna’s Stalker Nabbed

Mice in the early stage of Alzheimer’s disease had some of their brain abnormalities reversed and their declining mental function restored when they were given low doses of a rarely used cancer drug. The drug, bexarotene, stimulated the removal of ­beta-amyloid, a substance whose accumulation in the brain appears to be the main cause of Alzheimer’s dementia. After treatment, the animals fared better in tests of memory and social behavior, according to a study published online Thursday by the journal Science. Read full article > >

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Cancer drug shows promise in mouse Alzheimer’s study

The budget coming Monday from the Obama administration will send the NASA division that launches rovers to Mars and probes to Jupiter crashing back to Earth. Scientists briefed on the proposed budget said that the president’s plan drops funding for planetary science at NASA from $1.5 billion this year to $1.2 billion next year, with further cuts continuing through 2017. Read full article > >

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Obama’s budget would cut Mars program, solar system exploration

IN THE FALL of 2010, the Obama administration acknowledged a shocking truth: From 1946 through 1948, officials working in Guatemala for the U.S. Public Health Service conducted tests on some 5,100 unwitting individuals and deliberately infected at least 1,300 with sexually transmitted diseases. None of the victims — who included prisoners, soldiers, the mentally ill and commercial sex workers — consented to this barbaric treatment. At least 83 people died, and many suffered permanent damage. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: The U.S. must do more for Guatemala over STD study

The NHS in England spends £59,000 a day on translating documents and providing interpreters, according to a health think tank.

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NHS translation bill ‘tops £23m’

The nation’s leading breast cancer advocacy group has gone into full damage-control mode. Executives of the embattled Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation held conference calls with affiliates Saturday to discuss a new strategy for working with supporters, a first step in rebuilding trust after this week’s public relations fiasco surrounding Komen’s off-then-on-again decision to fund Planned Parenthood. Read full article > >

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Susan G. Komen foundation takes steps to rebuild trust after PR fiasco

On HealthTap, an interactive Web site, users can ask for medical advice, and doctors can gain whimsical “awards” for their answers.

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Digital Domain: On HealthTap, Advice for You and Points for Doctors

The Royal College of GPs calls for the health bill to be scrapped, heaping more pressure on the government’s controversial reforms in England.

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GP leaders turn back on NHS plans

In labor.

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Home-Birth Advocate Dies in Labor

Michelle Obama has been making the talk show rounds this week (“The Tonight Show,” “Rachael Ray”) and now “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” to talk about her fitness and healthy eating initiative. She already made Jay Leno eat vegetables, and now, the First Lady shows off her athletic skills in a competition with Ellen DeGeneres: Read full article > >

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Ellen DeGeneres challenges Michelle Obama to a push-up contest (Video)

Forget the whole kerfuffle in which the Susan G. Komen Foundation stopped its donations to Planned Parenthood , an organization that provides 4 million breast exams annually . I’m sure it had good reasons for that. Good, non-political reasons, having to do with the way the organization was “evolving,” or something. This decision is not transparently political in any way. Read full article > >

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Alexandra Petri: Komen Foundation’s lamentable choice

Donors reacting to the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood contributed $650,000 in 24 hours, nearly enough to replace last year’s Komen funding, Planned Parenthood executives said Wednesday. Read full article > >

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Planned Parenthood says Komen decision causes donation spike