Health

The City of Boulder is considering a proposal to ban smoking along the four blocks of the Pearl Street Mall. An open house to give the public more details is scheduled for Wednesday.

One hundred ten chimpanzees will retire from biomedical research, the National Institutes of Health announced today. The move comes as some groups are pushing for a ban on all medical chimp research.

The NIH has been reviewing its chimp research since December. That's when a report from the Institute of Medicine said that there was almost no scientific need for doing biomedical research on chimps.