Rabid animals are, of course, no laughing matter. The rabies virus can infect the central nervous system, resulting in disease and death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But that happens after a host of increasingly scary ...

It has been a fundamental tenet of nutrition: When it comes to weight loss, all calories are created equal. Regardless of what you eat, the key is to track your calories and burn more than you consume. But a large new study published on Wednesday in ...

An outbreak of the highly contagious norovirus was reported Wednesday at a shelter housing more than 150 evacuees from the deadly Camp Fire in California. A lab test confirmed that roughly 15 to 20 people staying at the Neighborhood Church of Chico, ...

The head of the Food and Drug Administration says the agency is increasing its focus on drug quality to guard against impurities such as the potentially cancer-causing chemicals that have been found in three commonly prescribed blood pressure ...

The United States Preventive Services Task Force wants all adults, including pregnant women, across the country to be tested for unhealthy alcohol use. In a paper, the task force stated that adults who are found to drink more than the recommended ...

Neanderthals might bring to mind images of cartoonish brutes whacking each other with clubs. But even though a number of Neanderthal skeletons have been unearthed showing grave head and neck injuries, new research suggests their lives weren't as ...

WASHINGTON ― Global public health experts are growing increasingly alarmed about the Ebola outbreak in the northeast region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has killed 215 people so far. It is now the largest outbreak that the DRC has ever ...

A growing wild monkey population in central Florida has experts on edge, as these primates are carriers of the dangerous Herpes B virus that can cause severe brain damage and even death in humans. The rhesus macaques monkeys found in Silver Spring ...

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