You would think that after years of alarms about food safety--outbreaks of illness followed by renewed efforts at cleanup--a staple like chicken would be a lot safer to eat.

Written by Dr. Paul Harris, the toolbox analogy shares one way of viewing the relationship between the services offered by a behavioral vision care optometrist and education. Enjoy the "nuts and bolts" of what some struggling kids really need.

Kangaroos may provide the key to a potential treatment to prevent skin cancer, Australian scientists said on Monday.

The Vision Care for Kids Act of 2009 addresses only the children who fail a vision screening. Unfortunately, this bill does not address the true problem--the vision screening system and its substitution for eye examinations. From Janet's Journal blog.

Charles Green has one big wish for the holiday season: that he and his four young daughters will get to spend it in a home of their

The federal government would pay schools to stop using nicknames, mascots or logos it considers derogatory, if a New Jersey congressman's bill becomes law.

The patterns that schooling fish form to save energy while swimming have inspired a new wind farm design that researchers say will increase the amount of power produced per acre by at least tenfold.

Aside from the obvious benefits of more effective global meat and dairy production, consumption of which is set to double by 2050, the moral benefits have been acknowledged by vegetarians who agree that they have no ethical objection to the procedure,

Fears are growing over Britain's exposure to the financial turmoil in the stricken Arab state of Dubai. UK banks account for half the £60billion of global loans to the debt-laden emirate, new statistics show.

A new study shows that cosmic radiation could be accelerating the growth of our Earth forests, though - as with most cosmic radiation effects - we don't know how it's happening or what the effects are.