As the realities of legalized marijuana take hold in four states and the District of Columbia, legislators and regulators could learn a lot from the successes (and failures) of the tobacco and…

People with insomnia and other sleep problems also report increased sensitivity to pain, reports a new study. The study included more than 10,400 adults from a large, ongoing Norwegian health study.…

America is the fattest developed country on earth and psychologists say that positive images and societal reinforcement make losing weight easier - obese people are more likely to have obese friends…

Edamame - vegetable soybean - is not widely grown in the United States, but it is growing in popularity. Part of the reason only about 85 million acres of grain-type soybean were grown in the U.…

Recent evidence demonstrating the feasibility of using novel CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology to make targeted changes in the DNA of human embryos is forcing researchers, clinicians, and ethicists…

Patients with type 2 diabetes who are overweight - but not obese - live longer than those who are normal weight or thin.  Obesity is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease and type 2…

The vivid pigmentation of zebras, the massive jaws of sharks, the fight or flight instinct and the diverse beaks of Darwin's finches. These and other remarkable features of the world's vertebrates…

After the U.S.started vaccinating kids for measles in the 1960s, children predictably stopped getting measles. What happened next had not been predicted - childhood deaths from all infectious…

One of developmental biology's biggest mysteries is ontogeny and the signals that transform masses of undifferentiated cells into tremendously complex organisms.  A new paper suggests…

There is always interest in exploring new therapeutic uses for existing drugs, because existing medications are probably generic, and therefore less expensive because generic companies don't have to…