Acute kidney injury, a common and serious complication of hospitalization, is on the increase worldwide, and reports indicate that guidance cues that form the organ may also be associated with red flags that point out danger.
Health officials weren't expecting the death of a Maryland local infected with rabies, the state's first case of human rabies in nearly four decades.
While some reports have indicated that breastfeeding may improve mental functioning in children, it doesn't necessarily protect against childhood obesity, according to a new study.
Mars One, the organization with the purpose to establish a human settlement on Mars in 2023, made a concrete step towards that goal by contracting its first aerospace supplier, Paragon Space Development Corporation(R), for a core component needed on the Red Planet.
Children can certainly be feisty. They know what they want when they want it, no matter if it's the terrible twos or higher up on the toddler chart, and according to a recent study, children as young as three years old have the same feeling when they are uncertain about making a decision. That same ...
A giant African snail popped out in Brisbane, Australia, and authorities have destroyed it on fears of a snail pest that could threaten Australian crops.
It might look like a character from "Men in Black" or some other Sci-Fi skit, when in fact, that's right folks-this thing is actually real. It's a Giant African snail, also referred to as Lisachatina Fulica.
Astronomers may have found a new star system that was hiding right under our nose, opening new hunting grounds to search for exoplanets.
December 29, 2012, is a day Sri Lankans will remember for several years to come. In that day many reported have seen a fireball lit up the skies over the province of Polonnaruwa, pulverizing sparkling fragments across the countryside.
Mars rover Curiosity provided evidence confirming that Mars could have once supported microbial life, NASA scientists announced in a press conference from Washington D.C. on Tuesday.
Replacing missing teeth with new bioengineered teeth, grown from stem cells generated from a person's own gum cells, is a future method that could be superior to the currently used implant technology, but for now not all required pieces are in place.
Angry Birds has been all the craze over the past year and now if you want to experience the real life version of it, the Angry Bird franchise is bring an interactive attraction to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida by the end of March.
