HEALTH

The updated procedures let meat companies kill pigs as quickly as they want and pass inspection responsibilities from government officials to plant employees.

The Midwest saw the biggest spike of heart infections cases linked to drug abuse.

The couple were regarded as the "go-to" foster family in the area.

As summer winds down but temperatures stay high, Rhode Island continues to battle Eastern Equine Encephalitis, but no further area spraying has been planned.

Mental health professionals say a rising number of young adults are being treated with psychiatric drugs to reduce emotional stress and exhaustion caused by "eco-anxiety," a fervent fear that humans will go extinct as a result of their own pollution and damage to the environment.

Exposure to air pollution has previously been linked to low birth weight and pre-term birth.

Results from a new study suggest that 6.5 percent of women were forced into their first time—either physically or through other forms of pressure.

Around 18 months after the gene-hacked strain was released into the wild, the native mosquito population bounced up to almost pre-release levels.

"Let's just dispense with any niceties. You don't have bubble gum flavor, mango-flavored tobacco products, unless you're trying to target an audience that you are losing. That's young people."

"Now even though I have been forced to tell you this, I choose to fight to educate and break the stigma around this subject."

I believe children are bearing the emotional burden of climate change more courageously than adults, but we owe it to them to share it.

Celebrities and media figures weighed in after James Corden ridiculed fellow late-night TV host Bill Maher over a "fat-shaming" segment in which Maher said overweight Americans should be criticized and not simply accepted.