World Health News

When we said goodbye, last New Year’s Eve, my father had already become hard of hearing. The end was very near. In our final...

Among the other findings, Dr. Larson said he found it particularly intriguing that once dogs had become domesticated, and even while they were sometimes...

In addition to his wife, Christine (Martin) Pendergast, a past president of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association on Long Island, he is survived...

At the Grand Canyon Trail Half Marathon on Nov. 7, one of the few longer events scheduled to take place this fall in-person, participants...

Babies love lullabies, and a new study suggests they don’t much care what culture the songs come from, what language they are sung in,...

Long-term exposure to noise may be linked to an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.Researchers did periodic interviews with 5,227...

Years ago, I took to the stage with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir. We sang Handel’s Messiah, Fauré’s Requiem and the Dream of Gerontius...

The 61-year-old woman put on her reading glasses to try to decipher the tiny black squiggles on the back of the package of instant...

The ever-increasing availability of virtual platforms might make that transition easy for some, Dr. Mazer said. But for people whose work can only be...

The second goal was to make pain understood. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Eccleston said, research has elucidated the pain system, including the...