Health

Americans are more likely than Europeans to believe that they live in a middle-class society, even though income is much less equally distributed here than it is in Europe.

There are a wide range of strategies for treating people who have autoimmune diseases. Unfortunately, none can cure the diseases.

Science shows that rigid hierarchies are bad for the health of everyone in them u2013 except those at the very top. But the good news is, cooperative values …

Flame retardants in everything from couch cushions to tents may be poisoning us all for no good reason.

Infant mortality is about race, poverty and geography, and the ways that the lives of some women and children in the US are made to matter more - and …

Recently, The New York Times ran a full-page ad that puts photos of ISIS and Hamas side-by-side.

The scars of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans that remain nine years later are a reminder of the cityu2019s vulnerability to rising tides and storm surges.

A Los Angeles-based rapper and protester of recent police killings says he fears becoming a target of gang violence because police falsely identified him as a member of the …

With the US government-and-media war hawks back in full flight - preparing to swoop down on Syria as well as Iraq - wiser heads might reflect on the chaos …

While the attention on the Ebola epidemic that has now been declared “out-of-control” is focused on the West African countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria, unaffected countries …