About 53 million people worldwide use opioids or their natural counterparts and nearly half of them develop substance-abuse disorders leading to about 118,000 overdose...

Watching a beloved sports team win a championship is one of the great joys in life, as years of cheering -- and suffering --...

The reputation of the federal government is often rated poorly. Members of Congress get poor grades too. However, the reputations of federal government agencies...

Obesity has been considered an epidemic in the United States for years. The share of adults considered obese has been steadily increasing, reaching almost...

Domesticated parrots are escaping their owners. The trend is so widespread that parrots live in the wild in many parts of the United States.

Most people never hope to have $42 million, much less spend that amount on a single day event, but for royal families across the...

With nice weather abound and plenty of vacation days -- especially for students -- demand for concerts and festivals increases. Many musicians heed the...

The current ongoing wave of animal and plant extinction, the worst since the dinosaur era, is referred to as the sixth extinction. While extinction...

A new study by researchers at the universities of Zurich and Lausanne suggests that children who suffer from multiple allergies or who experience trauma...

There are approximately 24,000 coffee shops across the nation and more than 50% of Americans over the age of 18 -- more than 150...