Russia will double its spending on HIV care and prevention next year in the face of a growing epidemic, the country's health minister announced on Friday.Veronika Skvortsova earlier this week raised the alarm about the HIV epidemic in Russia, saying that it would spiral…

Researchers have identified the brain regions that allow some people to feel less pain in one area of the body when they are subjected to pain in another area, according to a study in NeuroImage.The reaction, known as conditioned pain modulation (CPM) or “pain…

Dietary supplements - those "all natural" products people consume for weight loss, extra energy or to self-treat various conditions - send 23,000 people, many of them children, to the emergency room in the U.S. each year, according to a new estimate.Just over 9 percent…

The rise of smartphones has been meteoric, but as demand levels off, and prices begin to fall amid commoditization, a number of manufacturers are finding themselves in a precarious situation. Three of the biggest names in trouble are Sony, HTC, and Motorola. What are they…

When the mother of Wisconsin twins found out both of her daughters were pregnant, she predicted that they would give birth to twins of their own on the same day. The newly minted grandmother was only partially correct.Angel Owen and Kaye Henn had due…

LONDON – The case of Pauline Cafferkey, the first person known to have recovered from Ebola and then suffer an apparently life-threatening relapse, is taking scientists into uncharted territory.The Scottish nurse's critically ill situation, described as "staggering" by one British virologist, signals just how…

Parents who quit smoking may be less likely to relapse when they discuss the dangers of cigarettes with their children, a U.S. study suggests.Researchers followed almost 700 ex-smokers with children for one year. Half of the parents received a series of mailers with educational…

Researchers seeking a vaccine to protect pregnant women against malaria have stumbled across what they believe to be a potential cancer treatment. In cell cultures and mice with multiple forms of the disease, malaria proteins armed with a toxin sought out and absorbed cancer cells,…

The proportion of people reporting use of prescription opioids for reasons other than medical necessity fell between 2003 and 2013, but use disorders and overdose deaths increased, according to a new study.“The results underscore the importance of addressing the prescription opioid crisis,” said lead…

A 6-year-old boy in Salt Lake City, Utah, recently had plastic surgery to make his ears stick out less, and parents everywhere weighed in on the family's decision, perhaps without knowing all of the facts about this operation.The young boy had been bullied because…