Trevor Stokes

As Oman positions itself as a medical tourism destination, the country faces a significant challenge: How to keep its own citizens from going abroad to seek treatments.

As women climb up the corporate ladder, the hike doesn’t translate to easing pay discrepancies between the genders, according to research released Friday.

Turns out restricting where people can smoke may be one of the best ways to deter the habit, according to a survey released Friday.

New York City school children slimmed down during the past five years, according to research results published Thursday.

A supernova dubbed SN2011fe -- the brightest and closest one to Earth seen in the past 25 years - gave astronomers a glimpse into what causes these intense explosions and how the universe expands, according to research announced Wednesday.

Astrophysicists now have a snapshot of a rare event for the first time: a black hole eating its cold and dusty dinner.

Introducing: The world's tiniest frogs; amphibians that easily fit on a penny.

NASA's next generation Mars rover, the Curiosity, is already well on its way to visit the red planet and has already begun its research mission from space.

Researchers gave an epidemiological look Tuesday into the reasons and risks behind stillbirths and opened possible ways to prevent the devastating deaths of an estimated one out of every 160 pregnancies that predominantly affects black women.

Two surveys released Wednesday concludes that poultry workers in China still need H5N1 avian flu education and that people in China have changed their eating habits in response to bird flu.

President Barack Obama announced a $50 million increase in HIV/ AIDS treatments Thursday, funding meant to treat two million additional people.

A Japanese research group identified the yeast strain Pseudozyma, common worldwide, that excretes an enzyme that eats away at biodegradable plastics.

A good predictor of whether someone is a cheater is their creativity, according to a study published online Monday in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Joggers over the age of 60 use oxygen as efficiently as younger runners, suggestive that senior pavement pounders can run at a clip even into extreme old age, according to research.

Instead of speculating how much retouching a cover model has received, secretive in most magazines and ad agencies, a computer science duo figured out a way to quantify the level of manipulation.

NASA plans to launch its next-generation Mars rover, the Curiosity, to scope out the red planet in a highly-anticipated liftoff scheduled for Saturday.

People who eat canned versus homemade soup have high levels of bisphenol A (BPA), according to research released Tuesday about the controversial plastic-hardener linked to developmental disruptions in children along with cancer, diabetes and heart disease in adults.

A year-long study in northeast Madagascar found 30 percent greater anemia in 77 children 12 years and younger compared to children who had access to bushmeat.

Researchers announced Thursday a new class of next-generation antimalarial compounds that fight the disease-causing parasite in both blood and liver.

Teen pregnancies fell to the lowest recorded levels in the U.S., according to a federal report issued Thursday.

President Barack Obama scolded tobacco companies for trying to block health warning labels on cigarettes, a product the world leader himself only recently quit using.

Impoverished children with severe pneumonia fare better with in-home care than more common hospital referrals, according to a study released Thursday, a potential policy game-changer.

Smokers are motivated to quit, even if they don't use the arsenal of treatments and services that could help them break the habit, according to a report issued Thursday.

One group of biostatisticians argued Wednesday that by changing the anonymous peer review into a cooperative process among authors and referees, the review process generates fewer errors.

NASA officials filmed a former doomsday asteroid in what is one of shortest movies of all time: just six frames long.

Over 1,200 companies, research universities, scientific associations and residents urged the U.S. government to maintain funding for agricultural research as Congress mulls over huge budget cuts, in a petition released Tuesday by the American Society of Plant Biologists.

Ancient painters decorated caves with equine portraits that researchers Monday said depicted actual spotted horses instead of imaginative creations.

Physicists officially christened three elements, substances that cannot be broken down by chemical means, on Friday at the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics meeting in London held once every three years.

An asteroid nearly four Olympic swimming pools across will fly closer than the moon Tuesday, prompting officials to quell worries that the rogue rock will slam into the Earth.