Thanks to the marvels of medical science, our parents are living longer than ever before. Adults over age 80 are the fastest growing segment of the population, and most will ...

One day, it all came crashing down. The homeowners’ association called asking for their fees. To Mrs. Packel’s surprise, her husband had simply stopped paying them. Then she learned he ...

The great waves of plague that twice devastated Europe and changed the course of history had their origins in China, a team of medical geneticists reported Sunday, as did a ...

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2010) — Researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have reached an early, but important, milestone in the quest to ...

ScienceDaily (Oct. 31, 2010) — For pancreatic cancer patients unable to undergo surgery — the only known cure for this form of cancer — a highly targeted cancer radiation therapy ...

ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2010) — The H1N1 influenza pandemic has led to a sharp increase in the number of kids with a serious “secondary” bacterial infection called empyema in children, ...

Enlarge Sarah McBride for NPR Biologists are relocating species such as this juvenile Mojave Desert tortoise due to the planned construction of BrightSource Energy’s solar plant in southern California. Sarah ...

Thanks to processed and fast foods, being overworked, and feeling stressed while eating on the fly, it is increasingly difficult for most of us to eat anywhere near a balanced ...

Superfoods are vibrant, nutritionally dense foods that have recently become widely available and which offer tremendous dietary and healing potential. In this lively, illustrated overview, well-known raw-foods guru David Wolfe ...

Here are absolutely delicious recipes, created by master chefs Craig Claiborne and Pierre Franey, that are low in salt, calories, cholesterol, and fat — and high in all the pleasures ...