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Scalpels, suction tubes, heart monitors—these are some of the instruments you will find in an operating room. But when you, the patient ...

From Chopin to Danzig, operating rooms can be a cacophony of melodies with up to 70 percent of surgeons listen to music while operating. ...

New Horizons spacecraft is beaming back images of the solar system’s most distant planet, and scientists think they will answer man ...

The risk for heart trouble after radiation therapy is small, but thousands of breast-cancer patients are exposed. Radiation therap ...

Rates of mental illness in Rwanda are significantly higher than other countries. This is largely attributed to the trauma many suffered d ...

For our series “So what do you do,” Mindy Keefe sat down with Millersville University art historian  ...

Ellie Brown is a local photographer who has been documenting her father’s development of dementia.  A couple of years ago, the ...

In the wake of massive earthquakes or floods, resue efforts relied on muscle power. But in the digital age, social media is playing a big ...

Yoga during lunch and nutrition counseling right in your office sound like a good deal. But as workplace wellness programs become more po ...

Grown throughout the tropics, palm oil is made from the pulp of the fruit of the oil palm and has come under fire for being a bad actor i ...

Imagine you’re a parent and your child is not developing like other children her age, but doctors can’t tell you why. You tak ...

Different providers are following different paths.    The medical field has been notoriously slow to embrace tech ...

As workplace wellness programs become more popular, some employees are having second thoughts about the bargain they’ve made. ...

A neuroscientist-turned-artist is using physics to capture one of the most complex entities out there: the human brain. But can he do it? ...