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Deborah Copkaken Kogan's former neighbor, her pediatrician friend and her pediatric oncologist cousin all suggested a strange diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease in her son, Leo, after photos were shared with more than 1,400 friends friends and family on social network, Facebook, which has more than 750 million members.

Townspeople in one Indonesian province have an interesting new theory on curing illness.

The decline of large predators and large herbivores may be humankind's most pervasive influence on nature, according to a paper published in journal Science.

With Google's reign, there is no longer any need to memorize anything aside from academic and professional uses, and our brains have been proven to know that too.Columbia University psychologist Betsy Sparrow and her colleagues conducted a series of experiments, in which they found that people are less likely to remember information when they are aware of its availability on online search engines. In a way, Google and the Internet use in general have offloaded memory demands from our brai...

Face.com, a face detection and recognition service that equipped Facebook with the facial recognition technology, has announced an API release of a new set of facial analysis attributes, namely, mood estimation and facial expressions.

A Canadian HIV researcher said today that treatment as prevention, or should be used worldwide in order to derail the AIDS epidemic. Two HIV studies in Africa revealed July 13 that antiretroviral drugs used in combination with anti-retroviral therapy helps treat HIV and prevents transmission through decreasing contagiousness.

Turns out, those people waiting in the incredibly long Starbucks lines are not only getting their caffeine fix, but possibly also warding off staph infection-causing bacterium.

A look at America's obesity problem.

While typically being labeled an alpha male would be seen as a compliment, it now might mean you actually suffer from more stress, according to a recent study.

Killer Levi Aron was formally charged in a New York court today after he killed a lost Brooklyn boy walking home from day camp. Levi Aron pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and kidnapping and is being held without bail.

People who drink tea or coffee regularly may be less likely to carry the MRSA infection in their nostrils, a new study published in the Annals of Family Medicine revealed today. MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a staph infection-causing bacterium that is resistant to common antibiotics, is potentially lethal, causing pneumonia and blood infections.

A new government study published in the Annals of Family Medicine shows that those who drink hot tea or coffee are about twice as likely as non-drinkers to ward off methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in their nostrils.

Three colorful Borneo rainbow toads, which had not been verifiably seen since 1924, was spotted by researchers from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) on a tree during a late night surveillance.

Healthy HIV-free people could reduce their risk of getting the infection if they take a daily dose of antiretroviral drugs used to treat it, two groundbreaking studies have found.

Some experts have said that chronically obese children should be taken away from their parents, read the Journal of the American Medical Association as poor caretaking is only one risk factor for childhood obesity. And a question arises: Should the government step in and take these children from their homes or is this akin to banning circumcision in California?

A California woman learned the hard that cutting husband’s penis off with a kitchen knife will get you charged with torture. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office said in a written statement that Kieu tied her sleeping husband to a bed with nylon ropes and sliced off his penis.

Two HIV studies in Africa have revealed today that taking a daily pill containing antiretroviral drugs can reduce HIV transmission by as much as 75% in heterosexual couples. The results were called so compelling that that larger study was halted, researchers said Wednesday.

A newly discovered dinosaur fossil makes the extinction of dinosaurs a little less of a mystery.

A controversial editorial in a medical journal is calling for the removal of fat children from their parents' home if the situation calls for it.

Salt consumption may put you at high risk for early death, according to a recent study.

AIDS drugs designed to treat HIV can also be used to reduce dramatically the risk of infection among heterosexual couples, two studies conducted in Africa showed for the first time on Wednesday.

Parents of incredibly obese children should lose custody for not controlling their kids' weight, a new commentary suggests.

AIDS drugs designed to treat HIV can also be used to reduce dramatically the risk of infection among heterosexual couples, two studies conducted in Africa showed for the first time on Wednesday.

Few American women would put veggies on the top of their 'can't-live-without' list. Likewise, eating healthy doesn't mean you have to deprive yourself or make life difficult: One glass of wine per day cuts your odds of dying by 20 percent, according to Health.com.

Even if you are as perfect as a parent can be, if your children are severely obese they should be taken away, opines a new commentary.

The woman who cut off her husband's penis was arrested in California and could serve life in prison for allegedly drugging her husband after throwing the severed genital in a garbage disposal, authorities say. The 51-year-old victim is recovering after successful emergency surgery.

Not only has the creation of invisibility cloaks well advanced, scientists are undergoing researches to make more things on earth disappear.

Men are more likely than women to be diagnosed and die of cancer, according to government research and analysis of 36 different types of tumors and blood cancers that affect both sexes.

Two new studies in Africa have found out that, infection with Aids virus can be prevented by daily pills in heterosexual men and women.