Half a million times a year — about once every minute — an ambulance carrying a sick patient is turned away from a full emergency room and sent to another one farther away. It’s a sobering symptom...

Archeologists believe that a 4,500-year-old skeleton found in Mexico may have worn ceremonial teeth cut from the fangs of a wild animal. The skeleton, which is thought to have belonged to a 5ft tall...

Pioneer Hi-Bred's website boasts that their genetically modified (GM) Liberty Link corn survives doses of Liberty herbicide, which would normally kill corn. The reason, they say, is that the herbicide...

Brain food: Why the Government wants your child to take Omega-3, the fish oil supplement A tiny daily capsule can have a dramatic effect on pupils who usually play up in class, improving behaviour a...

Fears have been raised about the potential of sunscreens to disrupt the balance of thyroid hormones. German researchers found rats exposed to the sunscreen chemical 4MBC had raised levels of thyroi...

Some species of animals are changing genetically in order to adapt to rapid climate change within just a few generations, scientists believe. Smaller animals in particular that can breed quickly,...

The ECB considered raising its key interest rates by half a percentage point at its meeting, but the "overwhelming majority" of the bank's governing council deemed a quarter-point hike more appropriat...

There is an ongoing WHO investigation into an extended family cluster of H5N1-infected persons in Indonesia. According to the latest information from WHO, 8 members of the family have contracted avian...

Personal data on about 2.2 million active-duty military, Guard and Reserve personnel - not just 50,000 as initially believed - were among those stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee last month, the...

No copies of Playboy or Penthouse are in the clubhouse of baseball's Colorado Rockies. There's not even a Maxim. The only reading materials are daily newspapers, sports and car magazines and the Bible...