For decades, researchers suspected whales keep in touch from far away. A new math-focused analysis bolsters the theory.

In the U.K., a pharma-run watchdog has been issuing fines and levying suspensions. Could this help build public trust?

The state's aggressive approach includes declaring an animal health emergency and paying farmers who help researchers.

The rate of antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes has remained stubbornly high. Experts are concerned about misuse.

A race-neutral algorithm for lung function was recommended last year. Adopting it comes with thorny consequences.

Health authorities have said that stockpiled Tamiflu should work well against H5N1. Some experts question that bet.

The painful condition has long gone unrecognized in medicine. But a pioneering Botox treatment appears to be a cure.

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ­idealistic scientists and engineers saw the vast Arctic region as a place of ...

Most of the products in the typical kitchen use plastics that are virtually impossible to recycle. The film that acts as a lid on Dole Sunshine fruit bowls, the rings securing jars of McCormick dried ...