Kratom, a plant from Southeast Asia that produces mild, opioid-like effects, is set to become a severely prohibited drug if the US...
Scientists have been using the technology of 3D printing to study and help the human body for a while now, and researchers...
The World Health Organization has declared the Americas – North, South, Central – the first region of the world to be free...
The US Food and Drug Administration is conducting a public poll on what customers think is ‘healthy’ on a food label. The...
Pharmaceutical company Amgen has taken a hit as its multiple myeloma drug Kyprolis failed in its phase III clinical trial, sending its...
Kidney stones affect hundreds of thousands of people yearly, making trips to the emergency room necessary. But a recent study suggests that...
As people get older, they might think it’s time to start easing up on physical activity. But research begs to differ, stating...
Healthcare company Johnson and Johnson is facing another lawsuit as a woman has claimed their talcum baby powder gave her ovarian cancer,...
Seven people have died from drug overdoses in just one day in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The deaths, which occurred Saturday, have driven...
Researchers from King’s College London say that what’s in feces can tell why a person is obese. The make-up of bacteria in...
High-intensity LED streetlights may be causing people to become sleepless in Seattle – and in other places such as Los Angeles, New...
Hundreds of residents in Lima, Ohio assembled on Saturday for the 10th Suicide Awareness and Prevention Walk, a yearly event that honors...
When police and federal agents began the manhunt for the suspected bomber in New York and New Jersey, an alert appeared on...
Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan have pledged a whopping $3 billion to rid the world of all diseases by the time...
An outbreak of E.coli has infected seven people, sending five of them to the hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control...
Local health authorities in Pueblo and El Paso counties in Colorado are warning people to stay away from raw milk because of...
Singing fish actually exist – and these are not the kind that people see in cartoons or children’s movies, too. The plainfin...
Union nurses who have been on strike in Minneapolis and its surrounding areas for the past three weeks are now set to...
A Swedish scientist has begun editing DNA in healthy human embryos, attempting to modify genes in a move deemed taboo because of...
Women with dense breasts can now have more assurance when it comes to detecting tumors – a 3D mammogram machine allows radiologists...