It's hard to avoid a microbe that's pretty much everywhere when you don't know it exists.
It's hard to avoid a microbe that's pretty much everywhere when you don't know it exists.
Mental illness v. mad pride: Two new documentaries explore opposing views of bipolar disorder.
Meet the bison, flamingo, honey badger and other animals who just wanted to control their own destinies — and the flamingo that succeeded.
Geisinger Health’s chief is even giving out his cell number as part its innovative approach.
Stiff joints, bad vision, muffled hearing: ‘You just want to be in bed!’
Inventor’s awards have spawned talking gloves, face-tracking software, etc.
Earth's magnetic field might have gotten a boost at just the right time for life to evolve.
The shedding of emotional tears is unique to humans, but our evolutionary, psychological, and biological reasons for “crying it out” remain a mystery.
This confirms what researchers have suspected with mounting evidence about harms caused by the virus.
Inky the New Zealand octopus inspired jokes, praise and awe.
The collaboration, which will be formally announced Wednesday, focuses on immunotherapy -- an area of research that many believe represents the future of cancer treatment.
The technique uses signals recorded from the brain to trigger various finger, hand and wrist movements.
Among the less surprising results of a study on creepiness were high ratings for clowns and funeral directors.
Brazilian scientists studying 151 patients who recently sought help at a local hospital for symptoms similar to those caused by Zika have made a worrisome discovery -- that the virus may be associated with a second serious brain issue in adults.
When is a prosthetic limb too good for a fair competition?
Inky evidently decided a life in captivity wasn't for him.
Lead levels in some homes remain problematic months after the city switched its water source.
Lola was only a mutt. But her owners want the Georgia Supreme Court to declare she wasn't worthless.
The incident is the latest between homeowners and utility workers on private property.
The number of potentially deadly infections from contaminated medical scopes is far higher than what federal officials previously estimated, a new congressional investigation shows. As many as 350 pat...
If you have cancer, chances are your outpatient chemotherapy treatment costs are higher if your oncologist works for a health care system than if she has her own practice, a recent study found. The st...
Doctors know it’s important to talk with their patients about end-of-life care. But they’re finding it tough to start those conversations — and when they do, they’re not sure what to say, according to...
At Richard Logan’s pharmacy in Charleston, Missouri, prescription opioid painkillers are locked away in a cabinet. Missouri law requires pharmacies to keep schedule II controlled substances — drugs li...
