California’s emergency departments will be more clogged than ever as climate change pushes daily temperatures higher, a study finds. But there is one silver lining to the new research, however: Thousands of fewer deaths in California from...

A scientific expedition into a region of the Pacific Ocean named for Hades, Greek god of the underworld, has uncovered an other-worldly ecosystem 30,000 feet deep. “It’s a totally new thing that has not been seen before,”...

To fend off predators, millipedes release defensive compounds that could one day play a part in treating pain and neurological diseases. “These compounds are quite complex, so they’re going to take some time to synthesize in the...

President Donald Trump has introduced a new effort to help Americans more easily share their health records with doctors, using new technology and artificial intelligence (AI) tools. “Today the dream of easily transportable, electronic medical records finally...

Pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan died of a heart attack, Florida officials confirmed Thursday. The 71-year-old entertainer, whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea, died last week in Clearwater, Florida. The official cause of death was acute...

Singer Justin Timberlake has Lyme disease, a condition he says caused nerve pain, fatigue and other symptoms during his recent tour. In a post on Instagram Thursday, the 44-year-old pop star said the tick-borne illness left him...

Hearing loss prevents many young adults from achieving their potential in schooling and careers, new research suggests. That’s especially true when impaired hearing hits young Black Americans or Hispanic Americans, the study found. “Hearing problems may make...

Folks who smoke a lot of marijuana could be facing a more than four-fold odds of developing an oral cancer, new research suggests. “Cannabis smoke contains many of the same carcinogenic compounds found in tobacco smoke, which...

FRIDAY, Aug.1, 2025Someday, you might apply a small patch onto your skin to find out whether that odd little spot is a cancer or not.  That’s the hope from a new technology being developed by researchers at...

It’s no laughing matter: Kids and teens across America are increasingly inhaling nitrous oxide, better known as “laughing gas,” to get high.  Too often, this ends in tragedy. U.S. deaths linked to misuse of the common, legal...