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

Novel imaging research indicates that young adults with a higher genetic risk for depression showed less brain activity in several areas when responding to rewards and punishments. The study also ...

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

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

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

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

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

People living in racially and economically segregated neighborhoods are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced-stage ...

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

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

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

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