The scales have tipped in the fight against AIDS, with more than half of people infected with HIV now getting treatment and AIDS-related deaths almost halving since 2005, the United Nations said Thursday
Learning new things, eating and drinking well, not smoking and limiting hearing loss and loneliness could prevent a third of dementia cases, health experts said Thursday
Throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummelled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash in the ocean to species annihilation.
Drugs are scoring big wins against common cancers, setting new standards for how to treat many prostate, breast and lung tumors.
Throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummelled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash in the ocean to...
It wasn’t until he got to medical school that Narong Khuntikeo finally discovered what caused the liver cancer that took both of his parents’ lives: their...
In the years leading up to the return of Hong Kong to China by Britain in 1997, thousands of residents fearful of the future under Beijing jumped ship to...
The global obesity problem now affects one in 10 people in the world, it is rising in countries rich and poor, and in many countries it is increasing faster...
Politically ambitious pups and kittens: Put your resumes aside.
In a boxing world often dominated by promoters, self-promoters and glitz – exhibit A, Mayweather vs. McGregor – Alberto Reyes likes to do things the...
For Tamanna, a Lebanese non-profit inspired by Make-a-Wish Foundation, “things have a way of happening."
A trio of Lebanese fashion designers pooled their international experiences for Thursday’s Summer Pop-Up at the Cream Boutique in Saifi Village.
One of two baby peregrine falcons born on the University of California, Berkeley campus died after flying into a window, university officials said Wednesday
Britain's Natural History Museum in London suspended a gigantic skeleton of a blue whale in its main entrance Thursday, drawing attention to vanishing species...
For three weeks, as the Tour de France riders did their thing, a team of Associated Press journalists who followed them valiantly ate and drank their way...
A Japanese university is planning what it says will be the world’s first research center devoted to ninja – the black clad assassins known for secrecy and...
1983 shouldn’t have been particularly memorable for most people, but for me it was traumatic.
Developments over the past week or so have forced me to come to a startling conclusion: There’s a new crisis heading toward us and it’s unavoidable.