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.

The EPA has proposed scrapping the Endangerment Finding — the legal foundation for regulating greenhouse gases. If finalized, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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