Applying the word "Alzheimer's" to your parent can be uncomfortable, even if the signs, or symptoms, have been adding up for some time. It's much easier to gloss over strange behavior: "Oh, Mom's just getting older.

Thousands of Canadians can't get into medical school, yet we train foreign doctors who then go home. Why?

The Bureau of Land Management closed to the public over 30,000 acres of the Clear Creak Management Area in response to a multi-year Environmental Protection Agency report that concluded that the carcinogenic asbestos stirred

Abortion, although renown for its controversy throughout history, was not actually considered a criminal act until the mid-1800's. Go back in time and read what methods were used, who decided that it was an immoral practice

New research into a fungus killing Tasmanian platypuses suggests the disease could be spread by soil on car wheels or bushwalkers shoes.

A new study suggests that high self-esteem isn't necessarily healthy self-esteem because there are different types of high self-esteem."There are many kinds of high self-esteem, and in this study we found that for those in which it is fragile and shallow.

Children run less risk of being sensitive to allergens if there is a dog in the house in the early years of their lives, scientists have found. The conclusion, based on a six-year study of 9,000 children, adds weight to the theory that growing up

Irving Mayor Herbert A. Gears said a crazy election atmosphere riddled with personal attacks, long-running rivalries and heated rhetoric could have encouraged the placement of a Chihuahua puppy on his doorstep.

In 2001, Sandee Pingatore was determined to find out why her son, Troy, 29, had died in a California hospital while being treated for a drug overdose just hours after she had been told he was stable.

Arthritis pain can tempt you to veg out on the couch or even make it difficult to get out of bed in the morning. In fact, the last thing you might think would make you feel better is to get up and exercise. But a new study published in the Arthritis Care