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Teens in Hong Kong whose high school delayed the start of the day by just 15 minutes got to sleep a little longer, were late to school less often and showed better mental health and focus, according to a new study.

The system in your body that helps you keep your balance goes downhill after age 40, a new study finds.

People who have had "a religious experience" often report feelings of joy, peace and warmth, and new research has found that during these experiences, certain reward centers in the brain are activated.

Ohio has revoked the operating license of one of the state's few remaining abortion clinics on grounds it failed to obtain a required transfer agreement with a nearby hospital for emergencies.

From awareness campaigns to candle-lit vigils, people around the globe are marking World AIDS Day on Thursday.

Lindsay Norris has a lot to say to the cancer patients she's helped in her role as an oncology nurse, but in a recent blog post she penned after finding out she has cancer herself, the prevailing theme is: "I didn't get it."

Remember Martin Shkreli, the hedge-fund manager who last year founded Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired an essential anti-parasitic drug, and quickly jacked up its price 55-fold, from $13.50 to $750 a pill?

"Made in the same factory as peanuts."

The psychedelic drug in "magic mushrooms" can quickly and effectively help treat anxiety and depression in cancer patients, an effect that may last for months, two small studies show.

Humans are a profoundly nosy, voyeuristic species, forever trying to figure out the social goings-on around us.

After the death of a Virginia college student in February, police have now confirmed the cause of death was an accidental opioid overdose.

Now that President-elect Donald Trump has named his pick to oversee the nation's massive healthcare operations, attention turns to who will lead the FDA, with several top U.S. heart doctors expressing strong support for Robert Califf to remain commissioner.

Drinking just a glass of white wine each day raises the risk of deadliest form of skin cancer, a study reveals.

- Treating depression with video conference calls may offer symptom improvement similar to in-person visits, a recent U.S. study suggests.

Most patients who previously were not helped by repeated treatments for multiple myeloma showed strong benefits from a new type of therapy in a small study, and with no worrisome side effects, drugmaker Bluebird Bio Inc said on Wednesday.

Japan has started culling another 230,000 chickens after the discovery of a highly contagious form of bird flu on a farm in the north of the country, the local government said.

Young gay men are the frontline of China's battle to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, with new cases in the group increasing fourfold, one of the fastest rates of any segment of the population.

In the five and a half years she’s undergone chemotherapy, 19-year-old Kyla Pokorny has dealt with all the classic side effects, from nausea to lost hair.

When women want to strengthen their pelvic floor muscles they usually do Kegel exercises, but sex expert Layla Martin recommends a different type of workout to her clients—vaginal weightlifting

China might further relax, or even scrap, restrictions on childbirth to avoid a "low birthrate trap", an influential government think-tank has said, as the country debates how to avert a demographic timebomb.