China said Wednesday it is committed to honoring its pledges under the Paris climate change agreement, a day after U.S. President Donald Tru...
WASHINGTON — The House voted Tuesday to block online privacy regulations issued during the final months of the Obama administration, a firs...
The executive order signed by President Trump shelves the Clean Power Plan, the signature Obama-era policy designed to combat climate change...
WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday exhorted young girls to pursue careers in science, technology, eng...
WASHINGTON — In the U.S. and Africa, communities of African descendants are experiencing a high rate of diet related disorders like diabete...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s aides opened the door to working with moderate Democrats on health care and other issues while Senate...
There are an estimated 1.1 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, 500,000 of them are children. For many of them, getting enough food and water...
SYDNEY — New data shows that parts of New Zealand’s South Island moved several meters closer to the North Island during last November’s 7.8...
NEW YORK — Some Americans breathed a sigh of relief, others bubbled with frustration, and nearly all resigned themselves to the prospect th...
LONDON — Friday marks the United Nations’ World Tuberculosis Day, aimed at raising awareness of a disease that kills an estimated 1.8 milli...
MILWAUKEE — Curious toddlers find the drugs in a mother’s purse or accidentally dropped on the floor. Sometimes a parent fails to secure th...
FREMONT, INDIANA — The cost for individual homes in the U.S. to “go solar” has dropped by more than 60 percent over the last decade. Those ...
WEST CHAZY, N.Y. — Only 17 snowy miles from the Canadian border, Katie Bushey’s most basic needs are met by traveling health aides who come...
WASHINGTON — For some medical students, getting a yes or no Friday was more important than finding the right life partner. Friday was “Matc...
In a medical emergency, an ambulance with a qualified medical team on board can be a lifesaver. But in Nepal, this service is rare if not no...
Washington’s National Zoo hired its first animal nutritionist 30 years ago. Since then the zoo has been preparing specific, well-balanced me...
BANGKOK — Australian scientists, working with counterparts in Myanmar, are hoping to reduce Myanmar’s high death toll from snake bites in r...
LONDON — Britain’s Newcastle University says its scientists have received a license to create babies using DNA from three people, the first...
What’s the largest organ in the human body? It’s skin, of course. Ask any doctor about its role in protecting what’s inside us from all kind...
ELIZONDO, SPAIN — Tucked away in Spain’s Pyrenees mountains, patients at psychiatric facility Benito Menni stretch out across floor mats an...