The original report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

The agency will encourage new clinical trials on Covid-19 vaccines before approving them for children and healthy adults.

Amid restructuring, the agency is likely to gut its research program for evaluating the health risks of toxic chemicals.

Recent years have seen a 12 percent decline in new HIV infections. Cuts to federal funding could upend that progress.

Yale psychiatrist Albert Powers didn’t know what to expect as he strolled among the tarot card readers, astrologers, and crystal vendors at the psychic fair held at the Best Western outside North ...

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

A forest fire may happen to a tree, but the reverse can also be true: A tree happens to a fire. A scientist would say that the Ponderosa pine, for instance, has adapted to fire: In other words, it has ...

On the outskirts of the northern California town of Grass Valley, a massive concrete silo looms over the weeds and crumbling pavement. Nearby, unseen, a mine shaft drops 3,400 feet into the earth.

In many Western societies, parents eagerly await their children’s first words, then celebrate their arrival. There’s also a vast scientific and popular attention to early child language. Yet there is ...

I found out recently my parents fed me Soy formula as an infant and I worry it had adverse effects. I’m a 28 year old man and growing up I was always very thin, did not seem to put on muscle just ...

Did you know that sperm whales make sounds using “lips” located near their blowholes — and that those sounds are so loud they could burst the eardrums of a human diver at close range? Or that, near ...