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Sales on medical widgets are helping to pay for the health law. Device makers say the tax is a job-killer. High on the to-do list ...

What exactly is a vitamin? How many vitamins are out there? And why do we believe vitamins are so good for our health?  In he ...

Brian Wansink of Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab on helpful tips to reconfigure your kitchen and drop some pounds in the pr ...

If there’s mold in the basement, that’s hard to ignore. When the roof leaks, you fix it. But a radon problem in your house is ...

As data from large telescopes becomes more and more readily available to everyone, hobby astronomers are helping make true contributions ...

A blow to the head left NPR producer Theo Balcomb with a minor traumatic brain injury and a deep need to sleep and heal. Her sister took ...

Paul Ballas has struggled with lifelong obesity. But using his Xbox fitness to work out at home, Ballas has dropped close to 60 pounds in ...

Ten days, a dark room, no cell phone and no television – that’s how ...

In the 1950s, the DuPont chemical company, based in Delaware, came out with a product that might have made the biggest impact on how you ...

We spend large portions of our lives in and around our homes. It’s where we eat, sleep, and heal. Some of us were born in our homes ...

Shadowing a nurse as she follows patients out of the hospital reveals a complex health system both struggling and working to help patient ...

Last week, U.S. Food and Drug Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg announced she would step down at the end of March. Hamburg, one of ...

The question is not, “To salt, or not to salt?” It’s is, “What kind of salt? And in what form?” Each ...

At the end of the 19th century, doctors performed surgery bare-knuckled, sometimes literally up to their elbows in blood and guts.  ...