The ability to look the other way, while potentially destructive, is also critically important to forming and nourishing close relationships.

  There is an East-West divide over stem-cell research and genetic engineering.

  Scientists are using a controversial genetic engineering process to change the composition of the wood in the hopes of turning trees into new energy sources.

  After one sister was diagnosed with diabetes, the other enrolled in a study aimed at delaying or preventing the disease in some patients.

  With a quarter of its annual budget slashed, the Arecibo radio telescope will be listening to the universe less often in the coming years.

  If you are an Army doctor caring for patients, you do your duty, complete your mission.

  Patient transporters help keep hospitals running smoothly while acting as a kind of bellhop and parking attendant, rolled into one.

  More often than not, chronic pain is untreated or undertreated, but it does not have to be this way.

  The fat-laden Thanksgiving Day binge touches off a digestive workout that raises health risks.

  In evolution, host and parasite can engage in a kind of arms race. One side adapts and evolves; the other side adapts and evolves to keep up.

  Where does that famous ant that can lift something like 20 times its weight get its power?

  As Americans carve up their Thanksgiving turkeys this year, an age-old question will come into play: dark meat or white?

  The study could not determine, however, whether hearing-impaired children were at higher risk of injury.

  Urban residents are more likely to see a doctor later than those in the country are, a new study suggests.