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PHILADELPHIA — One in six cancer patients enroll in hospice only during their last three days of life, according to a new study from a team from the…

Folks in the U.S. are in a panic about catching Ebola. Let's just say, you're more likely to be eaten by a shark. The situation in Liberia, however, is starkly different.

Researchers have developed a technique to jump-start the body's systems for creating blood vessels, opening the door for potential new treatments for…

Biological development is a chaotic affair.Developing cells come in all sorts of shapes. They may be flat as a pancake, equilateral like a cube or long…

The DNA in this ancient Siberian leg bone shows that the man had Neanderthal ancestors — yet more proof that humans and Neanderthals interbred. And he lived much farther north than expected.

Fear of the virus has raised worries about travel to Africa — for safaris in Tanzania, for school programs in South Africa. But London is closer to the outbreak's epicenter than Johannesburg is.

Last year the American Medical Association voted to recognize obesity as a disease. But what's in a name? Commentator Tania Lombrozo reviews new evidence that suggests it matters.

It sounds like a good idea: anticipating flu's spread by monitoring a region's online searches. But sometimes a sneeze is just a cold.

The government has reported 42 percent fewer foodborne illness cases in the past decade and solved less than half of them, a report finds. But that doesn't necessarily mean the food supply is safer.

Every medical provider must have a qualified company to haul away their waste. That includes everything from used needles, soiled bandages, discarded…