Mobile dating apps like Tinder and Bumble are touted as the go-to place for hook-ups, but new research suggests that users don't have sex with more partners because of the apps -- it's just another venue to find romance. Published May 21, 2018
The newest exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History is, in a word, terrifying. Published May 17, 2018
Americans are increasingly depressed and new research suggests that it is affecting our fertility, with men less likely to impregnate their partners and women suffering pregnancy loss as a side effect of antidepressant medication. Published May 17, 2018
Two U.S. law firms are suing the government of Turkey on behalf of Kurdish protesters attacked outside the Turkish ambassador's residence last year in Washington. Published May 15, 2018
The number of adults trying e-cigarettes for the first time is increasing, but less are making a habit of using the electronic nicotine delivery systems, according to a research letter published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Published May 15, 2018
California recorded record numbers of new infections of sexually transmitted diseases in 2017, with nearly 300,000 cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, according to a report by the state health department and published Monday. Published May 15, 2018
A quarter of Americans spend almost an entire 24 hours without going outside and downplay the negative health effects of only breathing indoor air, according to a new survey claiming a new "indoor generation." Published May 15, 2018
Public health advocates and officials are at odds over programs that allow drug users to bring in their illicit drugs to test them for a deadly synthetic opioid. Published May 14, 2018
Diagnosis for major depression have increased dramatically across the U.S., especially in teens and young adults and varying from state to state, according to a study of insurance claims by provider Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Published May 11, 2018
When Army Pfc Shamika Burrage lost an ear in a car accident in 2016, she never dreamed where a replacement appendage eventually would come from -- her own forearm. Published May 10, 2018
Military veterans who suffered even a light head injury are two times more likely to develop dementia later in life, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday. Published May 8, 2018
States that have made it more difficult for opioids to be overprescribed have seen an increase in overdose deaths as drug users turn to cheaper heroin and synthetic fentanyl, according to a review of drug studies. Published May 7, 2018
The second phase of human trials for a universal flu vaccine has begun in the U.S., the National Institutes of Health announced Friday, as scientists continue to search for an all-encompassing solution to protecting against the unpredictable and constantly mutating virus. Published May 4, 2018
Over half of older adults are having sex and the majority of those are enjoying it, according to a new survey on healthy aging in adults ages 65 and older by researchers from the University of Michigan. Published May 3, 2018
At least one person has died and over 120 sickened in a multi-state E. Coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday. Published May 2, 2018
Nearly half of opioid-related overdose deaths in the U.S. were caused by the highly potent synthetic drug fentanyl, surpassing heroin and prescription pills as the most lethal drug killing Americans, according to a new report by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Published May 2, 2018
U.S. agencies are wholly unprepared when it comes to protecting the public from diseases carried by mosquitoes, ticks and fleas, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Published May 2, 2018
Four college friends since the late 1980s have contracted the same deadly cancer -- one so rare that it is diagnosed in roughly 5 out of 1 million people each year. Published May 2, 2018
Generation Z, the newest cohort of 18- to 22-year-olds in the U.S., are the loneliest generation and claim to be in worse health than older adults, according to a new survey on the epidemic of isolation in America. Published May 1, 2018
The ambitious precision-medicine project All of Us gets under way next week with the goal of enrolling 1 million Americans of all backgrounds in the largest longitundial health study in the world. Published May 1, 2018
