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Emory University Hospital in Atlanta will treat its third U.S. Ebola patient, according to the Associated Press. The unidentified aid worker was one of many World Health Organization doctors working in an Ebola treatment...

Radiation therapy with concurrent paclitaxel chemotherapy following surgery is an effective treatment for patients with high-risk endometrial cancer, according to a study. Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologi...

Propelled by the fastest rate of increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in three decades, levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere touched a record high in 2013, the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, said ...

A new study has found that factors, such as birth weight, gestational age at birth and lung function, growth and other measures at 8 years old, can be used to predict lung function during mid to late teenage years.

This past weekend, students from around the world faced off in a competition to test mock Mars rovers designed to explore the surface of the Red Planet.

Sensors in the watch and in the iPhone work together to record an individual's movement and fitness data.

The Ebola outbreak claimed nearly 200 lives in less than a week in West Africa and shows no signs of letting up, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday. Ebola has killed some 2,288 people in Guinea, Liberia and ...

From decorated pottery to intricate wall carvings, ancient Egyptian artifacts serve as records of life along the Nile Valley for the past 6,000 years, including its decline. Animal depictions in artwork show the rise and...

The fossilized remains of a new species of long-necked sauropod dinosaur have been discovered and identified in Tanzania, according to a new study published Tuesday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The species,...

Apple's new smartwatch, Apple Watch, aims to get people to move more by tracking their daily exercise as well as sitting time, according to an announcement from the company today (Sept. 9).

When two theoretical physicists crossed paths at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, the Story Collider was born. When storyteller Margot Leitman asked students at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Ne...

The Devils Hole pupfish, an inch-long fish that sparked a Supreme Court battle, could go extinct in less than 30 years, a new modeling study concludes.

The dusty Pisco-Ica desert stretches along the coast of southern Peru, but more than 16 million years ago it may have been covered with sparkling water and home to a now-extinct family of dolphins, known as squalodelphin...

Working memory may be an underlying mechanism of cognitive reserve in multiple sclerosis, research shows. This finding informs the relationships between working memory, intellectual enrichment and long-term memory in thi...

Truly two-dimensional objects are rare. Even a thin piece of paper is trillions of atoms thick. When physicists do succeed in producing 2D systems, quantum interactions can lead to new phenomena and Nobel prizes. Two exa...

Experiencing discrimination because of their race or health condition can influence just how much trust people put into the health profession. In fact, having these experiences was associated with a 53 percent increase i...

Male shoppers in search of emergency contraception do not always have an easy time making these purchases and may be turned away at their local pharmacies. A 'mystery shopper' survey conducted in New York City showed tha...

Donors, Ministries of Health, implementing agencies, and other partners should prioritize providing pregnant women in malaria endemic regions with long-lasting insecticide treated nets through antenatal care clinics to h...

Provided that therapy is started promptly, South Africans with HIV have chances of remaining alive beyond two years on antiretroviral therapy that are comparable to those of North American patients, according to new rese...

From tennis to the stock market, How to Predict the Unpredictable by William Poundstone aims to teach you how to overcome a universal human weakness

After a dramatic growth spurt this week, a wildfire burning in California's Yosemite National Park forced hikers to evacuate and produced a billowing veil of smoke that can be seen from space.

Expectant moms should be vaccinated for pertussis, or whooping cough, during their third trimester, according to obstetricians. Those in close contact with the infant also should be up to date with their whooping cough v...