By the age of 6, girls already consider boys more likely to show brilliance and more suited to "really, really smart" activities than their own gender, according to a new study.
After a list of soccer players with cancer prompted an investigation, the Washington State Department of Health found nothing unusual -- but one coach still thinks the cancer might be linked to artificial turf.
Washington State reported on Wednesday that there have been 278 confirmed and probable cases of mumps across five counties since October 2016: King, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane and Yakima. Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus spread from person to person through saliva and mucus.
When you hear the name "McDonald's," a few things may come to mind: fast food, a Happy Meal, a Big Mac, Ronald McDonald or even shoestring fries. These days, though, the "M" that makes up the golden arches might as well stand for "menu changes."
Premature death is on the rise for Native and white Americans in the United States, with drug overdose and suicide contributing heavily to the increase, according to a new study.
Even though the phrase "image recognition technologies" conjures visions of high-tech surveillance, these tools may soon be used in medicine more than in spycraft.
In excavating the medieval site of the St. Mary Magdalen hospital cemetery and chapel in Winchester, England, researchers were looking to genotype a strain of leprosy. They wanted to shed light on the origins and evolution of the epidemic that plagued Europe in the Middle Ages.
Just look at that pint of ice cream sitting there in the freezer case, all delicious-looking. It's going to be amazing, right? All that butterfat and chocolate and God knows what else. It's like a nutritional A-bomb, the kind of caloric combustion that would have melted the brains of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Of course you want it. It's a dopamine explosion waiting to happen.
Abortion laws vary dramatically around the world -- in some countries it's a personal choice, in others it's flatly illegal, and in many countries abortions are only accepted in certain situations such as fetal impairment or in cases of rape.
The levels of lead in Flint, Michigan's water tested below the federal limit in a recent six-month study, the state department that oversees water quality announced Tuesday.
