A new study finds that parents may underestimate their children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.

Early detection of cancer could give patients and caregivers more time for intervention and may lead to better outcomes.

Health insurance companies use AI to decide which health care treatment to cover. State laws and federal agencies are now moving toward regulating these algorithms.

Antarctica is a harsh continent, which in both history and fiction can trigger disturbing behavior and even madness.

Watery fluid between cells plays a major role, offering new insights into how organs and tissues adapt to aging, diabetes, cancer, and more.

By delivering an HIV vaccine candidate along with two adjuvants, researchers showed they could generate many more HIV-targeting B cells in mice.

Despite funding cuts, political scapegoating and internal tensions, thousands of volunteers came together in the 1980s to provide care to a stigmatized community.

Changes to forests, and how close people and their livestock live to them, have changed tick habitats and the risks humans face of Lyme disease and other illnesses.

The summer heat has crept in—and fleas have owners and pets alike itching. An expert has tips to help your pets remain flea-free.

Inflammation in the female reproductive tract may make it difficult to conceive a child, but replenishing a key hormone could help.