When Gül Dölen first gave ecstasy to octopuses, she didn't know what to expect. Dölen is a neuroscientist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who studies how the cells and chemicals in animal brains influence animals' social lives. Ecstasy, also ...

The number of people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias will double by 2060, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States ...

An outbreak of multi-drug resistant Campylobacter jejuni was linked to pet store puppies, and could warrant a look at antimicrobial use in the dog breeding industry, researchers found. Of the 149 investigated puppies, 142 had received one or more ...

People in the UK, US and China have a higher risk of dying early from conditions like cancer, heart disease and stroke than people in Italy, France, South Korea and Australia. These are the findings of the most detailed global analysis of deaths from ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning pet owners and veterinarians that drugs in a certain class may be causing neurologic events. Drugs in the isoxazoline class may be at the root of some of these problems, according to the FDA. The FDA ...

A Cornell professor whose buzzy and accessible food studies made him a media darling has submitted his resignation, the school said Thursday, a dramatic fall for a scholar whose work increasingly came under question in recent years. The university said ...

The current opioid overdose crisis is actually part of a 40-year trend that is still headed upward, and current efforts to fight it may not be anywhere near enough, researchers said Thursday. A new analysis of drug overdose deaths shows that while the ...

The death of a 62-year-old Bergen County man was caused by West Nile virus, the first confirmed fatal case in New Jersey this year from the mosquito-borne illness, according to state health officials. fred-maikisch.jpg Fred Maikisch. While state ...

(CNN) An ongoing outbreak of a rare eye infection has been discovered in contact lens wearers in the UK, a new study reveals. Researchers at University College London found that rates of Acanthamoeba keratitis, an infection of the cornea, have nearly ...