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Grandparents often help out with homework, baby-sitting and cooking. Historically, that elderly help and care might have given the grandkids an evolutionary payoff — the longer-lived, the better.

Twenty-two years after Congress ordered the National Institutes of Health to include women in the clinical trials it funds to test medical treatments,…

Not long after Sherry Poulin married her husband Louis last year, the newlyweds sat in their kitchen with health insurance information laid out in...

For Rev. Donna Allen’s congregation in Oakland, California, the New Revelation Community Church is a place to share with other African-Americans and to…

Sometimes in the field of citizen science, scientific instruments can start to look a little like that science fair project you did back in the 6th…

After tests showed that the number of children with above-average blood lead levels doubled during the 18 months the city took it's water supply from a…

If the holidays have you stressed out, an act of kindness could help. Researchers tracked people and found that stress levels dropped when they went out of their way to help others.

Alice Padilla’s laugh cut through the air at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo. Fresh off an hour-long exhibit tour, she and 16 other friends sat in the zoo…

Healthcare is the biggest part of Florida’s budget, consuming more than $20 billion. That funding picture has gotten more complicated in the last two…

Addiction specialists argue that substance abuse is best treated when it’s managed like any other chronic disease—with specialist care. But the country…