The Netherlands allows medically assisted euthanasia for extreme mental suffering. Some doctors question the guardrails.

Recent studies implicate the immune system and a herpes virus as potential contributors to development of the disease.

The first of five large dam projects under consideration has been approved, despite environmental and social costs.

M ore than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming ...

Workers are pushing to improve training and safety standards to help avoid falls, electrocution, and equipment failure.

Biostatistician Jeffrey Morris says effective dialogue requires an awareness of how politics shape a person's beliefs.

In March 2013, a 27-year-old man showed up at the Fifth People’s Hospital in Shanghai, China, with a high fever and cough. Within 48 hours, he was admitted to the intensive care unit with severe ...