A teen boy has died in Texas from a rare brain-eating infection of amoebas. This type of amoeba is found commonly in warm freshwater, but infections are rare.
An effort to reproduce 100 studies that had been published in three leading psychology journals found that more than half of the findings did not hold up when retested.
Oliver Sacks had two careers, one as a caring neurologist and the other as an empathetic writer who described the strange turns that the human brain can take using his patients’ disorders as launch pads for discussions of being conscious and being human.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning on Friday, August 28, against a class of diabetes drugs that can possibly cause severe and debilitating joint pain.
The vast majority of kindergarten-age children in the United States have received vaccinations against preventable diseases. But, there are locations with sizeable numbers of unprotected children.
Twin girls who were born conjoined at the chest and abdomen were separated soon after their birth in a Colorado hospital, but only one has survived. They shared an abdomen, liver, and intestinal tract, but had separate hearts and kidneys,
