The organization Frontline Health Advocates provides medical exemption notes — for a fee. What exactly are they selling?

In a new book, Steve Ramirez explores the potential of memory manipulation to ease depression and other afflictions.

For decades, the agency has redacted drug names from reports. Now, several former officials support ending the practice.

The federal government announced a new approach to regulating pharmaceutical ads. Consumers may not see a difference.

Oren Harman's "Metamorphosis" explores the minutiae of biological change and the mechanics of how life shifts forms.

Millions of women have pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD. But diagnoses and treatments vary considerably.

Peatlands act as a crucial climate regulator, and are increasingly at the center of conflicts over resource extraction.

In the 1960s, meteorologist Edward Lorenz was running weather simulations on an early computer system when he realized that a small rounding difference led to extremely divergent weather predictions.

In the beginning, the Big Bang happened, sending everything in the universe expanding outward and apart, from a dense hot point. Since then, all that matter and energy has continued to move outward, ...

Lauren Kennedy West was still a teenager when she began to smell and hear things that weren’t there. Then to see things, too, that were invisible to others. Meanwhile, her moods began to intensify, ...

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...