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With heat advisories blanketing the eastern half of the U.S., air conditioners are once again working over time as essential ...

Wildfire smoke has been easy to spot in Minnesota this week, coating the Twin Cities in a brownish haze that obscured the ...

Hazardous and binge drinking are becoming more prevalent in older people, most notably women, according to a large study of ...

New Hampshire has become the first state to require doctors and medical staff to sterilize patients who request it.

Twenty-eight-year-old Michaela Bonner has been working 12-hour shifts as an emergency medical technician in Norfolk, Virginia ...

There are relatively large regional differences in Sweden in the proportion of newborns receiving antibiotics for suspected ...

Biological sex affects hormonal and involuntary nervous system responses to binge drinking, potentially influencing ...

A simple information sheet may help prevent harms caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. A study just published in Alcohol, ...

Cardiovascular tests performed during primary care visits may give evidence of increasing alcohol use, which could help ...

Using a custom-built tool to analyze the electrical activity from neurons, researchers at Brown University have identified a ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Apellis Pharmaceuticals' Empaveli (pegcetacoplan) as the first treatment ...