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Cyclones have been quietly costing the world for decades, costs that could grow due to climate change.

Combine the hard stuff in shrimp shells with a spider silk protein and you get shrilk, a tough, biodegradable replacement for world-choking plastics (full text available to subscribers)

Vaccine trials are starting but there won't be enough doses to make a difference until April - by which time the epidemic may have peaked in some regions

Marijuana use is becoming ever-more mainstream, with two states now allowing recreational use of the drug. From pot's mythical origins to false positives in baby urine,

From the cover of Robot Visions by Isaac Asimov Your Android phone (or iPhone, if that's how you roll) is an impressive machine, with computing speeds and storage capacities thousands of times those of desktop PCs from o...

It may seem innocuous now, but this little stone might have killed someone 700 years ago.

With football season in full swing, there's no shortage of talk about young players -- from high school down to the pee wee levels -- suffering from concussions. Yet many parents may lack knowledge about this mild trauma...

Mothers who decide to breastfeed their children beyond 1 year of age consider their child's physical and social development to be most important, while the advice of health care professionals, family and friends are leas...

Guidelines on how many pitches young athletes should throw have been developed to stem the tide of injuries, but many coaches are not following the recommendations consistently, according to a study.

While the typical preteen or adolescent can be found playing sports or video games after school, more than 1.3 million spend their free time caring for a family member who suffers from a physical or mental illness, or su...

While it may take time before it's known what impact email exchanges might have on patients and their care, a new study offers some early insights into the effects on doctors, suggesting that reimbursement models and phy...

A web-based system that allows preschools and child care centers to report illnesses to local public health departments could improve the detection of disease outbreaks and allow resources to be mobilized more quickly.

More than 90 percent of potential pediatric fractures are splinted improperly in emergency rooms and urgent care centers, which can lead to swelling and skin injuries, according to a study.

Did you know that some of your favorite celebrities started these successful charities?

Despite reassurances from health officials that Ebola is unlikely to spread in the United States, concerns about the disease in this country have grown. Why does Ebola scare us?

Mineral coatings on sand particles actually encourage microbial activity in the rapid sand filters that are used to treat groundwater for drinking, according to a paper published ahead of print in Applied and Environment...

Stanford engineers have invented a wireless pressure sensor that has already been used to measure brain pressure in lab mice with brain injuries.

The pneumococcal vaccine recommended for young children not only prevents illness and death, but also has dramatically reduced severe antibiotic-resistant infections, suggests American nationwide research. Pneumococcal i...

Leading health experts urge the deployment of alternative trial designs to fast-track the evaluation of new Ebola treatments. Senior health professionals and medical ethicists, from Africa, Europe, and USA, argue that al...

341 HIV-infected men who reported using stimulants such as methamphetamine or cocaine derived life-saving benefits from being on antiretroviral therapy that were comparable to those of HIV-infected men who do not use sti...

NASA is preparing its orbiters and rovers on Mars for an unprecedented encounter with a comet as the space projectile is expected to fly by the red planet on Oct. 19. The comet C/2013 A1, also known as Siding Spring, wil...

A 47-year-old man being tested for Ebola in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is the first suspected case of the virus reaching Latin America. The unidentified patient arrived in Brazil on Sept. 19 from Guinea, one o...