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Reading one text is the equivalent of driving the length of a football field at 55mph with your eyes off the road, and other facts you need to know.

Americans will have no shortage of options this Labor Day weekend.

A debate over porn and public health continues to rage on.

The pictures are heartbreaking: Millions of honeybees lie dead after being sprayed with an insecticide targeting Zika-carrying mosquitoes.

We asked doctors what symptoms they would tell their friends to head to the ER for. Here are five times you shouldn't think twice.

A fire hazard has prompted Polaris Industries Inc. to recall two models of recreational off-highway vehicles, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday. The engine can overheat, and the turbo system's drain tube can loosen, possibly causing a fire.

Elijah, or "Eli," a pup in Idaho, was suffering from severe malnourishment, but thanks to some creative doctors, he's now living a life fit for a king.

Mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus have been identified in Miami Beach, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said Thursday.

Apparently sexism isn't just a social problem -- if you're in the path of a hurricane, gender bias might actually kill you.

They might as well be playing Russian Roulette.

An experimental drug shattered and removed toxic plaques in the brains of patients with early-stage Alzheimer's disease, researchers said Thursday. Given to patients once a month for a year, infusions of the drug aducanumab cleared the brain of the deposits, which experts believe play a crucial role in disrupting cellular processes and blocking communication among nerve cells.

This may go against what typically comes to mind when you think about vaccines, but the newly licensed vaccine against the dengue virus -- trade name Dengvaxia -- could lead to an increase in the number of cases of the disease if not implemented correctly, experts warn in a new study.

The Philadelphia Zoo recently welcomed a little newborn baby gorilla, which is awesome! Zoo babies are great. They're even going to let the public pick a name for the little tyke. Adorable. It's a Western lowland gorilla you say? Wait, wasn't that what...

You no longer have to look to science fiction to find the cyborg. We are all cyborgs now. Mobile phones, activity trackers, pacemakers, breast implants and even aspirins all act as biological, cognitive or social extensions and enhancements of our bodies and minds. Some have even predicted that human beings as we know them will be replaced by technically enhanced, god-like immortal beings within 200 years. Or at least rich people will.

Here are 12 houseplants that can improve air indoors.

Imagine getting a letter from a federal agency saying that your yard is exposing your children to an invisible poison that is known to decrease IQ. Then, you find out the agency tested for this toxic substance more than a year and a half ago, but the results are just now being delivered to you. And you learn that your 2-year-old shows blood-lead levels 6.6 times above the upper level of concern set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That nightmare is Shantel Allen's reality.

Firefighters in Scottsdale, Arizona, are fairly used to getting snake removal calls. This is rattlesnake country, after all.

A Florida hospital is evacuating 209 patients overnight after an electrical fire erupted in the generator room of the facility.