The first sign came when Deepanwita Dasgupta was 5 and started stumbling more while playing at her home in Bangalore in southern India. The girl was always up to something, …

Some children begin attempting to deceive their parents before their first birthdays, a new study suggests. About 1 in 4 infants are beginning to understand the concept of deception at …

Drinking soda and other highly-sweetened beverages has been linked to a higher risk of diabetes and obesity. Now research suggests that drinking sugary beverages also negatively affects adolescent mental health. …

Temple Lung Center surgeons performed 179 lung transplants in 2025, the most ever completed in a single year at any institution in the United States. The milestone underscores the scale …

Drexel University College of Medicine is starting a three-year medical degree program slated to enroll its first students in 2028. The school is joining a group of more than 30 …

The number of people who died from COVID-19 during the first two years of the pandemic in the United States may be more than 15% higher than previously reported, a …

Bacteria and plastic waste each can pose health and environmental issues. But new research shows that when used together, they can have a positive health impact by creating a frontline …

As many as 1 in 3 Americans – an estimated 82 million people – are making daily tradeoffs in order to pay their medical bills, a new survey says. Skipping …

Haircut trauma is a collective experience, it seems. Most of us have had a haircut gone awry at one point or another. Great haircuts can make us feel great. But …

Parenting has become so stressful that two years ago the U.S. surgeon general issued an advisory that it had become a public health issue. "Something has to change," Dr. Vivek …