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Scientists have identified a gene that may influence how your body reacts to coffee and how much you choose to consume.

Even a not-so-pricey drug can add up to a nightmare expense when it needs to be refilled every month.

President Jimmy Carter wasn't too sure he would be in Memphis this year for Habitat for Humanity's 33rd Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project.

The eastern coast of Kenya is riddled with danger. Once a sought-after tourist destination, today people are being warned to stay away because of threats by Islamist terror group Al-Shabaab. Others are fleeing the area for good.

According to the CDC, law enforcement submitted 426% more fentanyl to the DEA for testing between 2013 and 2014, while deaths from synthetic opioids increased by 79%.

Binghamton University officials have come forward with an explanation after a student-led Resident Assistant program called #StopWhitePeople2K16 nearly cause the internet to explode with anger.

Ernest Thompson, 98, would make regular visits to the USS Iowa, but can't anymore due to poor health. So the Navy came to him.

The American heroin epidemic has become more dangerous, as reports of heroin laced with carfentanil are being reported throughout the country.

A man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after being convicted of throwing boiling water on a sleeping same-sex couple.

If someone told you their journey to work took them one hour, how would you react?

On a hot and sticky summer day in Manhattan, Nicole Levin was leaving a dentist appointment when it happened.

Efforts to improve happiness could be a futile attempt to swim against the tide, as we may actually be programmed to be dissatisfied most of the time.

It must have been a heartbreaking sight during a routine traffic stop -- a baby in the backseat, covered in vomit. The state troopers knew exactly what to do.

In one of the first looks at privately insured patients with opioid problems, researchers paint a grim picture: Medical services for people with opioid dependence diagnoses skyrocketed more than 3,000 percent between 2007 and 2014.

After a gunman killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub in June, survivors of the massacre faced a new nightmare: mounting medical bills.

Patrick Hardison can now drive his children to school in the morning. He can swim in a pool, run his fingers through his hair and blink his eyes.

The good news is that maternal mortality rates are declining worldwide. The bad news? The situation for women in the United States is a glaring exception. And in Texas, where clinics serving women have shuttered and their health interests have been battled all the way up to the US Supreme Court, the rate of pregnancy-related deaths more than doubled over the course of two years.

With the number of Zika cases in the United States growing, the mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, says he's frustrated that Congress still hasn't passed a bill to help combat the virus.

There's long been evidence that there are certain times of year that are popular for divorce. But passive aggressive Facebook drama isn't exactly quantifiable data, so a new study from the University of Wisconsin has provided some actual numbers to support the trend.