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YORK, Pa. -- A man armed with a pistol and carrying zip ties entered a Pennsylvania hospital's intensive care unit Saturday and took staff members hostage before he was killed by police in a shooto...
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Bovard: Can Kennedy Save Kids From Psychiatric Ravage? Submitted by Jim Bovard President Trump issued an executive order last week creating a Make America Healthy Again Commission...
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The Top 5 Financial Scams Targeting Seniors  National Council on Aging

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Everyone is vulnerable to experiencing poverty and deprivation, which can lead to deficient diets that can contribute to mental and physical health problems.

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VANNES, France -- A former surgeon is set to stand trial in France on Monday for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them children who were his patients, in what investigators ...
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Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency. ...
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HELENA, Mont. — Despite concerns about what Congress and the Trump administration might have planned for Medicaid, Montana’s Republican-led legislature and GOP governor appear ready to keep the sta...
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Republicans in Congress have suggested big cuts to Medicaid. But what exactly is it? Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities, is inte...
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Walter Carpenter walks across the ski resort’s dining room on a knee that needs to be replaced and a hip that’s going bad. Lumbering into the kitchen, he deposits a brown bin of dirty...
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In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus woul...
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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Are there any animals with mental di...
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People from different ethnic backgrounds may report physical symptoms rather than purely cognitive difficulties, leading to delays in the diagnosis of dementia.

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Researchers identify predictive markers of response to immunotherapy treatment in a study involving data from over 700 patients across six different cohorts. The study has significant relevance, im...
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Researchers at The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital, have found that people with diabetes can achieve the same positive results using ...
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Associated Press -- Barely a week after mass firings at the Food and Drug Administration, some probationary staffers received unexpected news over the weekend: The government wants them back.Beginn...
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Aortic valve stenosis (AVS) is a significant health concern affecting over 1.5 million Americans and millions more globally. Researchers are exploring the use of a new drug called ataciguat to mana...
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The HHS issued new sex-based definitions that exclude gender, ignoring the identities of gender-diverse and intersex people. chuchart duangdaw/Getty Images HHS secretary RFK Jr. issued new...
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No infections have been detected in humans so far, the CDC said.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday that the new coronavirus found in bats is currently not a cause f...
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Researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Genome Center have outlined the pathway human herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV1) can use to contribute to Alzheimer's disease in aging brains. In a report published i...
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6 Mental Health Benefits of Socializing for Aging Adults  Healthline

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Utah appears to be the first state ready to put a full ban on fluoride in public water systems under a bill that doesn’t allow cities or communities to decide whether to add the cavity-preventing m...