A new study reveals that simply seeing a visibly “infectious” figure can set off a chain reaction in the brain’s ...

America's political debate over gun violence is a perennial food fight about the ethics of restricting access to firearms.

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Mercury, the element, is no longer used in thermometers, but it remains at the center of a decades-long debate over vaccine ...

Secretary Kennedy’s reductions in force, offered as reform, may cripple drug approvals, gut biomedical research, and gamble ...

What do you get when a tomato and a tuber-less plant meet in the Andes? A potato, nature’s starchy lovechild and one of ...

Julian Kirchherr had a hypothesis. The Assistant Professor in Geosciences at Utrecht University suspected that a significant ...

The White House recently disclosed that President Trump experiences chronic venous insufficiency, possibly intended to head ...

Private equity firms are turning health systems into their ATMs, raking in profits while care crumbles and often collapses ...

Vaping was sold as the antidote to smoking. However, for teens, it’s a deadly come-on. Fruity flavors mask toxins that scar ...

The federal government continues its crackdown on prescription opioids — a policy that doesn't reduce overdose deaths but ...

Once a humble root, beetroot has been elevated to “superfood” status, offering not only nutrition but a “food as medicine” ...