The Netherlands allows medically assisted euthanasia for extreme mental suffering. Some doctors question the guardrails.

Recent studies implicate the immune system and a herpes virus as potential contributors to development of the disease.

The first of five large dam projects under consideration has been approved, despite environmental and social costs.

Workers are pushing to improve training and safety standards to help avoid falls, electrocution, and equipment failure.

More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak ...

Biostatistician Jeffrey Morris says effective dialogue requires an awareness of how politics shape a person's beliefs.

What does a gazelle think when a member of its herd becomes a lion’s dinner? Questions like these have been very much on the ...