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The hundreds of scarves and mittens that adorned a New Hampshire park this week certainly brightened things up. But they were not meant to be decorative.

A 50-year-old man developed acute hepatitis from excessive energy drink consumption, according to a new case report published this week in BMJ Case Reports.

A Texas family is mourning the loss of a husband and wife, married for seven decades, who died 10 hours apart.

A lollipop after a morning doctor visit. A cupcake for a classmate's birthday with lunch. A bag of cookies, gummies or a few little doughuts before after-school activities begin.

A baby who will never know his mother now rocks to sleep most nights to the sound of her voice, thanks to the kindness of strangers on the Internet.

"I want to be a firefighter when I grow up, so I really support cops and paramedics and firefighters," Brandon Bautista says.

In a new Vanity Fair cover story, singer Adele discusses fame and also opens up about her struggles with postpartum depression, a disorder that strikes hundreds of thousands of women each year.

It may be one week until Election Day, but students across the country have already cast their ballots in mock elections and predicted a winner in the presidential campaign.

Should you have to pay an added tax for that soda? Voters in four American cities will face that question next week as they decide whether the sugary beverages sold in their neighborhoods should be taxed.

Both men and women are responsible for pregnancy, yet the burden of preventing it often falls on one gender. Women can choose from a variety of options to control fertility while for generations, men have been limited to withdrawal, condoms and sterilization. But someday soon, a new method may allow men to shoulder a greater share of responsibility.

It may be time to add more branches to the human family tree. Researchers have come up with a estimation tool to determine the traits we have in common with early humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans, and how our histories crossed paths.

The relentless bullying became too much to handle for an 11-year-old girl with a "crooked" smile, her mother said.

These days, teachers often face classrooms filled with yawning students who stayed up late snapping selfies or playing online games.

There's this incredibly powerful idea in popular psychology that personality lies along a spectrum of chattiness: extroverts on one side, all drawing their energy from socializing, and then, on the other, introverts, who tap into their power within fortresses of solitude.

Measles is highly infectious, and new research shows that complications from the infection may be even more deadly than originally thought.

When you're sick, there's a good chance that taking medication will help you feel better. But for many kids -- and adults -- trying to swallow a pill might only make them feel worse.

The testicles of male mice infected with Zika shrank by 90% and their levels of sex hormones crashed, possibly permanently, says new study.

Crematoriums, morgues, funeral homes. These buildings, all of which are involved in rituals around death, often look as mournful as they sound.