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New global survey shows where young people are most likely to have unprotected intercourse

Worldwide cancer care cost burden at $895 billion in 2008; by 2030 new cancers estimated to tack on additional $286 billion

More parents are choosing home births over hospitals, but is it really safe?

Officials say questionable beef may have been shipped accidentally

TODAY wants to know all about your marriage — the good, the bad and the annoying.

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The nose has long been viewed as a disorganized sensory organ, its odor receptors strewn about with very little rhyme or reason. A study in Nature Neuroscience , published online September 25, challenges that notion. It suggests that odor receptors are grouped by the pleasantness of the odors they detect

More than 6,000 chemicals pollute U.S. drinking water, yet the U.S

Young people across the globe are having more unprotected sex and know less about effective contraception options, a multinational survey revealed on Monday.

By Michael Hirtzer CHENOA, Illinois (Reuters) - Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois. [More]

From scenic sunsets to decadent desserts, life's pleasures often feel like luxuries. But in fact, they may boil down to basic survival. Susan Spencer explores the science behind why people like what they like and finds out it's not just about our sensory experiences

On March 13 of this year, 17 year old Yuuko Sato and 13 year old Mina Sato left the only home they'd ever known on an organic farm in Fukushima prefecture. They now live more than two hours by train to the north, in Yamagata

Distractions at work are nothing new. Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) wrote about strategies for dealing with work distractions way back in the 1300s. In his Life of Solitude , Petrarch offers the following advice for the medieval scholar: "Close the doors of your senses in order to achieve solitude in the presence of other people." Today, you will find many people doing exactly that in coffee shops and other public places.