Category: Health

Rice is a staple food crop of 20 percent of the world’s population. It’s also grown on every continent except

Farmers in developing countries often rely heavily on their yearly harvest to feed their families. A bad crop can have

Ambulance response times for cardiac arrest are longer in poor U.S. neighborhoods than in rich ones, which means poor patients

One hundred thousand residents of Flint, Michigan could only use water from bottles or filters during a years-long lead contamination

A contentious debate among diabetes researchers has surrounded the regeneration of pancreatic insulin-producing cells: not if these cells regenerate, but

A smokeless method of vaporizing and then inhaling pot packs a much more powerful punch than simply smoking weed, researchers

When the tiny and invasive spiny water flea began appearing in University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers’ nets in 2009, scientists began

A new study published in the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease finds that mothers’ stress levels at