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A young man from Tennessee is living with haemolacria, an alarming medical condition -- without warning, he begins to bleed from his eyes. And some of the best doctors in the country are completely stumped by his ailment...

Scientists have shown that both exposure to cold and the ingestion of chemicals in chili peppers increase the amount of energy the fat cells burn, and can help lead to weight loss.

Sexually active teens today may be more susceptible to a type of genital herpes infection than teens in years past, a new study suggests. Researchers looked for the presence of antibodies against herpes simplex virus typ...

Researchers have discovered that a combination of two commonly prescribed drugs used to treat high cholesterol and osteoporosis may serve as the foundation of a new treatment for toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection caus...

A simple, color-coded system for labeling food items in a hospital cafeteria appears to have increased customer's attention to the healthiness of their food choices, along with encouraging purchases of the most healthy i...

As the nation prepares for more uninsured Americans to gain health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, a question hangs over crowded emergency rooms: Will the newly insured make fewer ER visits than they do today? A...

A new report shows that the use of both effective and risky drug therapies by Medicare patients varies widely across US regions, offering further evidence that location is a key determinant in the quality and cost of the...

A Medecins Sans Frontieres vaccination campaign of more than 300,000 people in Guinea shows feasibility of oral cholera vaccine for control of future epidemics.

A study by psychologists is a step toward neuroscience research on consciousness. "The difference between being conscious and unconscious is a bit like the difference between driving from Los Angeles to New York in a str...

Death from analgesic overdose, including the painkillers oxycodone and codeine, is more concentrated in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods with a prevalence of high divorce, single-parent homes than deaths from uni...

Many negative effects of drinking, such as transitioning into heavy alcohol use, often take place during adolescence and can contribute to long-term negative health outcomes as well as the development of alcohol use diso...

Many underage youth use false identification to buy alcohol. A new study has found that almost two-thirds of a college student sample used false IDs. False ID use might contribute to the development of alcohol use disord...

Children of women harboring the bilharzia (schistosomiasis) worm during pregnancy are more likely to suffer the infection by the age of five years, a new study has found.

Researchers say high-priced cigarettes and smoke-free homes effectively reduce smoking behaviors among low-income individuals - a demographic in which tobacco use has remained comparatively high.

Women who watch their weight and closely follow a Mediterranean-style diet high in vegetables, vegetable oils, fish and beans may increase their chance of becoming pregnant.

Increased vitamin D levels may prevent a wide range of diseases, according to recent studies. However, some previous studies led to a concern that vitamin D supplementation could increase an individual's risk of developi...

Engage with Simran Sethi and QUEST on social media in this conversation about water. #QUESTwater

The body mass index, or BMI, is a metric used to estimate the amount of body fat a person has. Though BMI doesn't measure body fat directly, it correlates with other direct measures of body fat.

Knots can help unravel some knotty (sorry!) situations. The mathematical study of knotted shapes has proved constructive for many branches of physics, from understanding how fluids flow to ... --

Christopher from Salem, OR, USA via Wikimedia Commons With Halloween around the corner haunted forests, hayrides, houses and more are setting up shop using new and old ways to frighten you. One ever-popular spooky effect...

The Tower of David was supposed to be a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela. But after an economic collapse and the death of the man who commissioned it in the 1990s, the tower went unfinished and uninhabited, just...

The history of biology is peppered with invaluable contributions by physics and physicists. Even if we leave aside the argument that it's all just physics anyway, theoretical and practical biology leans heavily on our ph...