U.S. researchers say an amnesia-inducing drug has shed light on how people form new memories.

The findings of the latest Nielsen//NetRatings release on podcasting will come as little surprise to those familiar with this emerging new industry.

Here are eighteen interesting "tricks of the body" to learn.

Chicagoans who live in areas with scant grocery stores and many fast-food restaurants are more likely to die prematurely and at greater rates from diabetes, cancer or heart disease, a study to be released today finds.

A Texas doctor has developed the Slow Starch diet as a way to help San Antonio shed its title as one of the fattest cities in the nation.

American comic Arthur Baer once said that "betting is pretty much like liquor: you can make it illegal, but you can’t make it unpopular."

A deadly type of surgical error - accidentally leaving sponges inside patients - could be eliminated by waving a special type of wand over the patient’s wound, according to researchers.