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People who pass many waking hours exposed to bright light may not experience sleep problems even when they read on a tablet every night before bed, a small experiment suggests.

Vegans often claim their diet is the best for the earth, since it avoids all products of animal husbandry.

A baby girl will never know her mother after a horrific accident Wednesday in Quebec City, reports Le Journal de Quebec.

Ever since Swedish psychologist K. Anders Ericsson published a paper on the impact of 10,000 hours of deliberate practice on a musician's performance in 1993, his findings have become lore—and extended to a range of activities, such as medicine, chess, and sports.

Complete spinal cord paralysis is thought to be irreversible, but new research suggests brain-controlled robotics with tactile feedback may reactivate circuitry between the brain and nerves, effectively restoring some lower-body movement and sensation.

In one year, there could be about 9,320 fewer deaths and 19 million fewer sick days if  the American Thoracic Society’s (ATS) recommended air quality standards are implemented, a report released Wednesday suggests.

At last, a condom truckers can relate to.

The teenage years can be mystifying for parents.

From the decade-long swimming rivalry between Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, to figure skating's famous Nancy-Kerrigan-versus-Tonya-Harding contest, some Olympic matchups seem to be as much about contention between two personalities as they are about crowning a champion

The U.S. government will announce on Thursday that it will allow more research into marijuana but has rejected requests to relax the classification of the substance as a dangerous, highly addictive drug with no medical use, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

WASHINGTON — Some of America's greatest leaders in history have had mental health problems and it may have helped in times of crisis, psychiatrists and psychologists said.

WASHINGTON — Amateur psychoanalysts have put Donald Trump on the couch, calling him a sociopath, unhinged, a narcissist.

LONDON — Detectives are investigating allegations that a British player at the Wimbledon tennis tournament was poisoned, after she fell ill with a bacterial infection that can be spread through rat urine, London's Metropolitan Police said Thursday.

A U.S. government-backed panel says there is not enough evidence to say all children should have blood tests to check for high levels of fat-like substances known as lipids.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A person has been hospitalized after health officials say they contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in Broward County, Florida.

The brain makes less dopamine, a chemical involved in both pleasure and addiction, when people smoke but this temporary deficit may be reversed when smokers kick the habit, a small experiment suggests.

Ten-year-old Gavin Pierson competes at state-level karate championships, but getting good at the sport required more practice than that of the ordinary athlete.

I'm 13 weeks pregnant. Now that Zika is here in America, what should I do to reduce my risk of getting it?

When guys free their feet from the shackles of socks and actual shoes, the results are rarely good.

Authorities in the Bahamas are reporting the archipelago's first Zika case and say it was contracted elsewhere.