Science & Health
The discovery of dangerous levels of toxic cadmium in rice sold in the southern city of Guangzhou has piled more pressure on China to clean up its food chain
Authorities are investigating an unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two people.
Doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy.
A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured.
The National Weather Service gave it the top-of-the-scale rating of EF5 for wind speed and breadth, and severity of damage.
China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority.
The mayor of Portland has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city's drinking water.
Submerged in Charleston Harbor three months ago in the first phase of an experiment to determine the effect of ocean aging on wine.
A new study shows that there are individual differences in vulnerability to food addiction.
Adults who drink at least one sugar-sweetened drink a day are slightly more likely to develop kidney stones than people who rarely imbibe them.
Sobiech is being remembered not only for his music, but also for the way he lived.
People will choose larger portions of food if they are labeled as being "healthier," even if they have the same number of calories.
People with high blood pressure who could communicate with their pharmacists online had better blood pressure control a year after that service ended.
More than 50 percent of doctors' offices and 4 in 5 hospitals have transitioned from paper to electronic records.
A U.S. official says the Pentagon has decided to buy a new computerized health records system that will allow the department to better share data.
One in ten people reported a moderate or severe complication on a post-surgery questionnaire.
Daily vitamin C supplements don't lower uric acid as much as drugs.
Society's rise coincided with the taming of infectious diseases and lengthening life spans.
Virus killing people in the Middle East and Europe has already had an amazing array of names.
A Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine were charged with murder.
