Following reports that a man ate his 40-pound family dog and another man in China chewed a woman's face, the latest zombie news is that a naked man high on the street drug bath salts threatened to eat police officers on a Georgia golf course.
All but one of the children died with rapid deterioration of respiratory function, the WHO said.
All but one of the 61 children admitted to hospital with the diseases had died with rapid deterioration of respiratory function, the WHO said.
GSK targeted the antidepressant Paxil to patients under age 18 when it was approved for adults only, and it pushed the drug Wellbutrin for uses it was not approved for, including weight loss and treatment of sexual dysfunction, according to an investigation led by the U.S. Justice Department.
A new study found that in a group of nearly 46,000 women, those infected with a primarily cat-borne parasite were one and a half times more likely to attempt suicide compared to uninfected women, irrespective of a previous mental illness diagnosis.
The best reason for any undertaking? Making sure a Michael Bay and Ben Affleck movie doesn't become a reality. A nonprofit foundation aims to launch a space telescope that will track half a million asteroids in the solar system, searching for any potential threats to our planet before it's too late.
The Church of Scientology has drawn criticism from ex-members, human rights groups and world governments for many of its practices, including requiring members to pay large sums of money to advance in rank and tales of isolation and kidnapping. But what does science have to say about the church's central practices?
It looks like scientists are closing in on the theoretical God particle, according to news reports ahead of research meetings this week.
Alan Dex Poindexter, a former space shuttle commander, died Sunday after being injured in a water sports accident in Florida. He was 50. According to multiple news reports citing the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC), Poindexter was jet skiing with his two sons near Little Sabine Bay off of Pensacola Beach, Fla.
A new study is the first to suggest that urinary incontinence may be a long-term problem for men many years after their prostate surgery, according to the researchers.
After accounting for the mother's age, smoking, number of previous births and other factors, researchers found an increased risk of autism, but not Asperger syndrome, in preemies and babies that were very small at birth.
Wrapping up a mission that lasted six-and-a-half months, three members of the Expedition 31 crew undocked from the International Space Station and landed safely in the steppe of Kazakhstan in the early hours Sunday.
In an effort to cut gridlock and pollution in Guangzhou, authorities in the capital city of Guangdong province began a one-year trial program on Sunday that will cap the number of new automobiles hitting the streets, according to the state-owned Xinhua news agency.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released in its World Drug Report 2012 this week data underlying a list of the top 12 cannabis-smoking countries in the world compiled by Business Insider. The good old U.S. of A. landed at No. 7.
The Colorado wildfires -- such as the Waldo Canyon Fire in the vicinity of Colorado Springs that has killed at least two people, displaced tens of thousands, and destroyed more than 340 homes -- appear to provide evidence that such disasters are getting worse as the years wear on.
As a heat wave rolls across most of the U.S., precautions should be taken to prevent heat-related conditions such as heat stroke, cramps, and sunburn.
Summer is upon us, with dreams of ice cream, vacation, and lounging in the sun. But all of these activities have an element of danger to them.
Several red states could decide to opt out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, which would leave the very poor with little-to-no options for health coverage.
There's an ongoing scientific debate centered on the jaws of duck-billed dinosaurs.
With Independence Day on the horizon, many Americans are looking for remedies to cure that inevitable hangover they will face on July 5 when expected back in the office. But thanks to researchers Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Medlock, there is now a scientific cure for the aftermath of lapping up too much alcohol. In a new video, The Scientific Hangover Cure, that has gone viral, Moffit and Medlock of ASAPScience debunk some of the myths after drinking too much.
Mississippi could soon be the only state in the nation without an abortion clinic.
The nation's biggest public hospital system says that although health care reform means people will have insurance, this will not make up for the loss of Medicaid funds.
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act led by President Barack Obama, people like 59-year-old freelance writer Gail Richardson could be eligible for insurance under an expanded Medicaid program for low-income earners now that the highest U.S. court has rejected a challenge to the law's constitutionality.
The FDA has approved the first new weight-loss pill in more than a decade: Belviq, a long term anti-obesity drug produced by Arena Pharmaceuticals.
While toxicology reports of cannibal attacker Rudy Eugene failed to find the bath salts drug in his system, experts speculate that Marijuana could have influenced the face-chewing attack he carried out in Miami last month.
A set of ancient carvings on a staircase in Guatemala mentions the Dec. 21, 2012, Mayan calendar event -- but they're part of a political speech, not an apocalypse prediction.
Global timekeepers are adding an extra second to the atomic clock-based time standard this weekend in order to compensate for the Earth's irregular rotation.
Both the uninsured and those who already have health coverage stand to benefit from the upholding of the Affordable Care Act.
Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's liberal judges to uphold the law's individual mandate.
A German court ruling that said circumcision violates a child's fundamental right to bodily integrity has drawn criticism from members of the country's Jewish and Muslim communities, where the practice has historical and religious significance.
