Scientists using a revolutionary approach have devised an antibiotic that may offset the mounting problem of drug resistance for decades, they said on Wednesday.
Seizures of methamphetamine soared at the U.S.-Mexico border during fiscal year 2014, accelerating a trend that began several years ago as new laws that limited access to the drug's chemical ingredients made it harder to manufacture it in the U.S.
The tequila sure looks real, so do the beer taps. Inside the hospital at the National Institutes of Health, researchers are testing a possible new treatment to help heavy drinkers cut back -- using a replica of a fully stocked bar.
A list of resolutions can be easily broken if they were promptly made. If you find yourself repeating the same resolutions every year, some adjustments need to be made
As air pollution has been detected as reaching serious levels amid dropping temperatures in Western Taiwan, cases of asthma and other breathing difficulties are on the increase, according to Chang Gung Medical Foundation (林口長庚醫院) Chief of Pediatric Allergy Asthma and Rheumatology Division Yeh Kuo-wei (葉國偉).
If obesity is linked to Americans' 24/7 lifestyles, would it help to reset the clock that dictates our eating? A new study suggests it would, and in ways that go well beyond weight alone.
Obesity and extreme obesity can reduce life expectancy by up to eight years and deprive people of as much as 19 years of good health, according to a study published on Friday.
Recovery of feeling can gradually improve for years after a hand transplant, suggests a small study that points to changes in the brain, not just the new hand, as a reason.
Fast-food restaurants in the United States are "disproportionately" targeting black children and kids in middle-income and rural areas, according to a newly published study.
Laundry detergent pods could be dangerous for young children, researchers warned Monday, as reports grow of kids under six swallowing the capsules in the United States.
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