Encouraging primary care physicians to screen patients for physical inactivity with a simple questionnaire can help identify ...

Salt Lake City program hopes to expand respite care capacity, citing the reduced burden on health care systems and benefits ...

While in southern India, scientists recently stumbled upon some unusual spiders. The arachnids — which were brown, hairy and minuscule — were found “well camouflaged” among rocks and patches of ...

In a new discovery in the battle against Alzheimer's disease, scientists have pinpointed a key cellular mechanism that is the ...

A brutal murder on a New York City subway made national headlines. But left unsaid was how frequently people experiencing homelessness are killed — often while asleep.

Atop Cividade Hill in northern Portugal, the ancient city of Bracasa Augusta lays in ruin. Today, the site belongs to the ...

Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia and researchers say their findings could lead to treatments that could slow ...

Millions of fireworks are set off around the world each year, causing air pollution to spike. Should you be worried?

A 60-plus year career that involved starting a neighborhood newspaper at age 11 earned national attention for Guy Mattison ...

To better understand the impact on several whale and dolphin species, researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...

Michigan included $20 million in its state budget for next year to expand the program to other cities as well as to mostly ...

A sequence of stress signals among specialized clean-up cells in the brain could at last reveal why some immune responses can ...