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The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has surpassed 3,200 cases

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR) — The WIC program has been providing proper nutrition in the region for nearly 50 years. Due to rising enrollment, the state’s health commissioner, James McDonald, M.D., stopped by Syracuse to highlight the downtown clinic’s success. The…

Advice for runners, cyclists and anyone planning to exercise outdoors when air quality deteriorates.

Uganda has officially declared the end of the 2026 Ebola outbreak after completing a 42-day monitoring period without new infections, following months of surveillance and response efforts.

It’s tough to guess who’s having more fun here — the little boy or the pups surrounding him. In the video shared by @candra.burnett, three Golden Retriever p...

Science News: Tasmanian devils, dogs and shellfish are some of the only animals that are known to carry naturally occurring cancers that can pass between individual.

Dr. Kenneth Ngure, president-elect of the International AIDS Society, says, "We have had very good scientific advances ... yet the funding cuts have also taken us back."

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Ohio is among the hardest hit states in the cyclosporiasis outbreak. How has Hamilton County and Cincinnati fared? Here are the numbers.

Heavy TV viewers had smaller brain volumes and white matter damage tied to cognitive decline.

New lipid-lowering therapy, administered subcutaneously just twice a year, offers significant and sustained reduction of LDL-C across a diverse group of patient populations.

A stray dog waited beneath the bushes until kind humans returned, replacing her makeshift shelter with a loving foster home.

While the results of the mouse study were promising, the benefits of rapamycin were only temporary.

WHO reports over 3,200 Ebola cases and 1,400 deaths in the DRC outbreak as the rare Bundibugyo strain spreads to Uganda and vaccine trials begin

Driving while listening to the radio; making breakfast while talking to the family; eating a sandwich while reading a book.

With human bodies being bags of mostly salty water and countless messy biochemical processes, it’s little wonder that over time some residues tend to collect in these systems. Although evolut…

California is among a number of states seeing more COVID cases this summer. Is there a cause for alarm?

As the U.S. grapples with record-high cases of measles, school is right around the corner, and there are fewer and fewer kids vaccinated against the disease.

Evolution has engineered a creature that shouldn't exist—a fish that thrives in conditions that would pulverize almost any other organism on Earth.

Cannabis is widely considered to be a stress reliever – at least for some – but there's new evidence that it might actually have the opposite effect when used regularly.

A single 30-minute sauna session may briefly put the immune system on higher alert. Finnish researchers found that sauna heat, paired with a short cold shower, increased every type of white blood cell circulating in the bloodstream, including key infection fi…

If Wynn spots a patch of water, there’s a good chance she’s about to spend the next several minutes blowing bubbles into it. Not splashing around. Not swimmi...