Bad Medicine

Americans are spending $23 billion a year on them, and the National Institutes of Health thinks that might be about $22.99 billion too much.

Mummies have fascinated people for centuries, and have even been ground-up and used as medicines.

Morning people have a lower risk for depression and other mental health concerns compared with night owls, but your natural sleeping pattern is strongly controlled by genes, a study finds.

Recreational marijuana use is becoming increasingly legal across the U.S., but that doesn't mean that it's safe.

You'd be hard-pressed to find someone to say something good about Salmonella...

Researchers have found a way to short-circuit the "immortality switch" that cancer cells use to divide indefinitely.

The promise of CRISPR is being realized today in the lab through the creation of special animal models and cell lines. And the technology is finally entering the clinic to treat humans directly.

Scientists have found how aspirin might help prevent Alzheimer's disease by helping cells clear the debris that leads to amyloid plaque formation.