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Researchers have found a gene that affects how strongly you experience bitter flavors. And those who aren't as sensitive eat about 200 more servings of vegetables per year.

At first glance, the people inside Franklin County Municipal Court room 13C have little in common. There’s a man in cutoff jean shorts with tattooed arms.…

New legislation in California and New York proposes a label for sugary beverages. The label looks like the warning on cigarette packages, but the beverage industry has called it "misleading."

Ten states have asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate a rare virus suspected of sending hundreds of children in the South and Midwest to the hospital.

Sickle cell disease is a debilitating genetic blood disorder. Many kids with the disease find themselves missing out on fun, immersive experiences like overnight summer camp. But one Indiana camp is looking to change that.

While serving time in jail, Emma King had to go to great lengths to find something as common as tampons. She and other women in prison eventually learned…

More than 400 people died from drug overdoses in Allegheny County last year. According to the Health Department, many of them were due to opioids,…

Brazil has surpassed the U.S. as the world capital of plastic surgery. All this cosmetic enhancement is widely embraced in a country where women flaunt, rather than hide, having work done.

The U.S infant mortality rate has steadily declined over the past two decades. But some states are starting to see the reverse trend – with the rate of Black infant deaths far outpacing that of White infants.

Any day now, the FDA could announce a final rule aimed at removing much of the remaining trans fats out of the food supply. It could amount to a near ban on the fats, which wreak cardiovascular havoc.