Cigarette butts pile up in parks, beaches, streets and bus stops, places where all types of littering are frowned upon.

Mixing drinking water with chlorine, the United States’ most common method of disinfecting drinking water, creates previously unidentified toxic byproducts, says  Carsten Prasse from Johns Hopkins University and his collaborators from the University of California, Berkeley and Switzerland.

Administration of zinc acetate lozenges to common cold patients did not shorten colds in a randomized trial published in BMJ Open.

Experts in population mapping at the University of Southampton have identified cities and provinces within mainland China, and cities and countries worldwide, which are at high-risk from the spread of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

Harvard scientist suggests long-term exposure to smoke-filled air could lead to premature deaths.

New research shows that cleaning up ozone precursors within energy, industrial and transportation sectors could mitigate climate change.

Beth MacKay knew at a young age that she saw the world differently than many of her friends and family. 

The controversy about whether eggs are good or bad for your heart health may be solved, and about one a day is fine.

Eating walnuts may help slow cognitive decline in at-risk groups of the elderly population, according to a study conducted by researchers in California and Spain.

The grim effects that climate change will have on pediatric health outcomes was the focus of a “Viewpoint” article published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation by Susan E. Pacheco, MD, an expert at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).