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Taking a 'Dry January' break from alcohol can reward you with better sleep, more energy, a better mood and better overall health. Here's expert advice on how to go dry successfully.

When creating New Year's resolutions, it's important to have fun while planning for emergencies. Here are an expert's five favorite science-based tips for sticking to your resolutions.

New Year's Day is often accompanied by that dreaded morning aftermath — a hangover. Learn what experts say can help — or hurt — a hangover.

With parties, weddings and overdue catch-ups in full swing again, the pressure drink socially is back. Millie Gooch, founder of the Sober Girl Society, is pushing back with practical advice to help young women who want to have fun but not drink so much.

This year was full of moments that remind us why we look at the stars and dig into the past.

Find out how to prevent a hangover — or at least keep that morning-after misery to a minimum. Experts say there is only one true preventive — or cure — for a hangover: Don't drink.

Stunning meteor showers, full moons and eclipses will light up the sky in 2023.

Seasonal flu activity remains high in the United States but continued to decline in most areas last week, leading up to Christmas, according to data published Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers do not include flu activity from after the holiday.

Your phone doesn't even need to ping to distract you. There's good evidence the mere presence of it is enough to divert your attention. So what's going on? More importantly, how can you reclaim your focus without missing the important stuff?

The expertise and availability of coroners, who determine cause of death in criminal and unexplained cases, varies widely across the country.

As the world enters a new year, many public health and infectious disease experts predict that monitoring for new coronavirus variants will be an increasingly important part of Covid-19 mitigation efforts -- and some are turning their attention to a surge in cases in China.

The tree of life grew in 2022 as California Academy of Sciences researchers and their international collaborators discovered 146 new animal, plant and fungi species.

A congressional investigation found that the US Food and Drug Administration's "atypical collaboration" to approve a high-priced Alzheimer's drug was "rife with irregularities."

The number of people under age 20 with type 2 diabetes in the US may increase nearly 675% by 2060 if trends continue, researchers say, with an increase of up to 65% in young people with type 1 diabetes.

Bakers may swoon at the thought of being able to crank out elaborate sweets and candies over the holidays, but food writer Casey Barber maintains there's one dessert that's perfect for this time of year. And that's ice cream.

Sesame will be included in the list of major food allergens and subject to food allergen regulatory requirements, starting January 1. Here's what will change.

Early this year, even before the national shortage of infant formula or a demand-driven shortfall of pain medications for kids, children's hospitals began to worry about looming shortages of two critical medications for premature infants: sodium chloride and potassium chloride.

Mars may seem like a dry, desolate place, but the red planet transforms into an otherworldly wonderland in winter, according to a new video shared by NASA.

Of the wellness practices that populated TikTok this year, here's what we should leave in 2022 or could take with us into the new year, according to experts.

Experts say there will likely be a post-holiday bump in respiratory virus numbers, and that could put an even greater strain on supplies of some medications that have been hard to find amid a severe illness season.