Last year, Katie Burns got a phone call that shows what can happen in medicine when information runs ahead of knowledge. Burns learned that a genetic test of her fetus had turned up an...

You were with Caritas for 12 years; what are your feelings, having left for this new job? I was Director for four of those 12 years, and leaving was a very difficult decision. My experience there...

A Liberian woman who probably caught Ebola in 2014 may have infected three relatives a year after she first fell sick, doctors reported in a study published Monday. There have been previous...

Entrepreneurs and institutions who have been funding eco-initiatives have all of a sudden realised that no tangible results have been achieved through research alone and that only the provision of...

The maker of a permanent contraceptive implant subject to thousands of injury reports and repeated safety restrictions by regulators said Friday that it will stop selling the device in the U.S., the...

New research shows more promise for using AIDS treatment drugs as a prevention tool, to help keep uninfected people from catching HIV during sex with a partner who has the virus. There were no...

Costa Coffee Malta headed out to one of Malta's most beautiful locations, Riviera beach, to conduct a social experiment and test people's kindness. The idea was simple. Will people stop to help a...

Every night without fail, Paul Blumstein straps on a mask that prevents him from repeatedly waking up, gasping for air. It's been his routine since he was diagnosed with a condition called sleep...

Decades ago, hundreds of nuns and priests made an extraordinary decision: They agreed to donate their brains upon death to science, hoping to help solve mysteries about Alzheimer's and other diseases....

Today, your body will accumulate quadrillions of new injuries in your DNA. The constant onslaught of many forms of damage, some of which permanently mutates your genes, could initiate cancer and prove...