Medical News

Never worry about the after-effects of a hearty holiday meal by giving the gift of sweet-smelling farts this Yuletide season. Everyone will thank you.

Michigan student with highest level of peanut allergy dies after exposure to peanut butter cookies. Oakland University sophomore was in a coma for a week before his death.

Sequencing genome of mosquito species show why some have evolved to carry malaria while other haven't. Researchers say finding could lead to better control of the deadly disease.

China's capital city ponders strict new prohibitions on all indoor smoking. Anti-smoking laws have a tough time in the notoriously tobacco-addicted nation.

Dogs respond to human speech in much the same way we do, study suggests. Their brains can respond simultaneously to bother the content and emotional component of speech, researchers say.