Health

Friday March 19, 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) - From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.   Full Story

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - As the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, lowincome women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings, according to the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network.   Full Story

NORTH ADAMS -- After three years of persistent lobbying from state legislators and other key governmental officials, the MCLA Center for Science and Innovation is becoming a reality -- the $50 million building was included in the governor's five-year capital plan that was released late Wednesday afternoon.   Full Story

PITTSFIELD — The American Cancer Society will hold a Look Good ... Feel Better seminar on Monday, June 8, from 4 to 6 p.m., at the American Cancer Society/Berkshire Medical Resource Center located at Berkshire Medical Center, 725 North St.   Full Story

WILLIAMSTOWN — The public is invited to a discussion of single payer health care on Wednesday, April 1, 7 p.m., in the Fellowship Hall at the First Congregational Church on Route 2.   Full Story

NORTH ADAMS — Northern Berkshire Healthcare has scheduled a cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) class and a first aid class in January.   Full Story