A long-awaited county Board of Supervisors hearing on cannabis odor control ended in a split vote this week, as three board ...

A young brother and sister died and 15 people were injured, several seriously, when vehicle driven by a suspected drunken ...

Originating in 1971 with five high school students in California, the day has foolishly become a celebratory ritual in contemporary culture.

Air pollution is weakening children’s attention span, a new study suggests. Exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) - a pollutant largely pumped out by road traffic - is linked to poorer attention ...

A recent study suggests that your digestive health has more to do with your mood than you might realize. In the study, conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School ...

A Finnish study published in the journal Archives Of Disease In Childhood will do nothing to reassure them, since it highlights the impact of excessive internet use on school attendance.

For the study, the researchers analysed the data of more than 86,000 adolescents aged 14-16, taken from the School Health Promotion study, a national biennial survey. The teens were asked about ...

The placenta could be one reason why some women develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy, a new study finds. A deficit in the way the placenta expresses the gene for a hormone called insulin ...

The genetic variants behind type 2 diabetes could also increase the risk of breast, bowel and pancreatic cancer, a study suggests. Links between the diseases have long been known, but the role of ...

The genetic variants behind type 2 diabetes could also increase the risk of breast, bowel and pancreatic cancer, a study suggests. Links between the diseases have long been known, but the role of ...

Now a new USC study shows that people from certain racial and ethnic groups may be ineligible for Alzheimer's disease clinical trials because they have lower levels of amyloid protein at early ...

The genetic variants behind type 2 diabetes could also increase the risk of breast, bowel and pancreatic cancer, a study suggests. Links between the diseases have long been known, but the role of ...