Research

Researchers at St. Louis University have put a price on voluntarily coming down with the flu.

Seeing live music increases feelings of well-being by 21 percent. That's good for your health, a researcher said.

The University of Tübingen says kids should study up.

A new study confirms what psychologist Stanley Milgram showed more than 50 years ago: the disturbing extent to which people will obey orders even when those orders cause pain in others.

Research offers hints that infection could alter brain chemistry and function, but research funding is hard to achieve.

Drug companies are losing out in innovation because high finance prefers to fund technology.

Researchers who become patients can quickly lose sight of the neutrality they’ve developed.

Hillary Clinton thinks we can treat and even cure Alzheimer's disease by 2025.

A super-jet engine, living to age 120, safer childbirth and a prosthetic hand that can feel.

Opponents argue that private sector research is best for maximizing innovation.

Minority groups continue to be left out of clinical trials—and left to suffer overall worse medical care.

African-American men were included as part of clinical testing but excluded from treatment.

Viruses could be used as vehicles for delivering healthy genes to treat cystic fibrosis and other genetic diseases

An age-old fascination with genealogy helps Icelandic scientists chart their nation’s entire genome.

Biodefense research used thousands of monkeys for painful experiments after 9/11.

According to DNA research, the split between dogs and wolves occurred longer ago than we realized.

The FDA insists BPA is safe, despite all the science to the contrary.

One activist's search for a cure for his autism is drawing a violent backlash.