Highly stressful situations affect the brains of young girls and boys in different ways, research from Stanford University School of Medicine suggests....
A revolutionary HIV testing tool is out – and in true 21st century form, it’s on a USB stick. Researchers from the...
Rats are ticklish. So are other animals, and of course, humans. Researchers who tickled the rodents in the name of science discovered...
How new strains of flu affect a person may be partly determined by when he or she first had any kind of...
Plastic polluting the seas and beaches gives off a smell that reminds sea birds of food, drawing them to debris. This discovery...
Walgreens Alliance Inc. has sued its former laboratory-testing partner, Theranos Inc., on claims that the company violated a contract. The lawsuit was...
In Colorado, it is now legal for adults with terminal illnesses to end their own lives with prescription medications. The right-to-die ballot...
Three more states now join the list of places in the United States where recreational marijuana is legal, as voters in California,...
A teenager from Northern Ireland who had to go to England to get a pregnancy terminated when she was 15 years old...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake rocked north-central Oklahoma today at 11:27 p.m. – the strongest and latest in a series of tremors that...
Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas may be the prime times to fill up on food, drinks and treats, but a study finds that...
American women are increasingly choosing to terminate their pregnancies with abortion pills instead of surgery, a new report states. Abortion medications are...
Parents should listen up. The American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines last month on the use of electronic gadgets like tablets,...
Social media may have more real-life medical effects than people think. According to scientists who studied Facebook activity in relation to mortality...
The number of children and teenagers likely to be poisoned by opioids prescribed for other family members are rising, a new study...
The death of a 13-year-oldboy from a sudden cardiac arrest led to a spate of misdiagnoses by his doctors, highlighting how genetic...
After 115 days on the International Space Station, three astronauts are finally back on Earth. On board the Russian Soyuz MS-01 space...
Close to one in seven children all over the world live in regions with high levels of air pollution, making them the...
Wildlife officials in Louisiana announced that the Caminada Beach and Dune Restoration Project is complete, meaning Elmer’s Island Refuge in Grand Isle can...
Scientists may have found the area of the brain that lights up when the placebo effect happens. The finding could help improve...