A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian ...

Scientists have progressed from merely provoking an anti-cancer immune response to designing it ...

For centuries, hemophilia was a dangerous genetic disorder with no treatment. Children with hemophilia often didn't make it to adulthood, since a bump or fall could cause massive internal bleeding.

The infectious disease, also called TB, was the leading cause of death in Victorian England, killing around four million people between 1851 and 1910. The number of cases reported in England rose ...

The unusual order follows an outbreak of bird flu at an Aquebogue duck farm and detections of the disease in markets in Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn.

Kennedy, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, will face two Senate committee hearings next week ...

A trained pharmaceutical chemist, Lilly was an archetype of the dynamic and multi-talented 19th ... the last century. This knowledge of genetics and the underlying cause of many diseases ...

The right has long targeted the Department of Education, which became a Cabinet agency in 1980 under President Jimmy Carter.

After darkening the skies of North America for 20,000 years, the passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction. It changed our ...

Honolulu officials thought fire could stop the bubonic plague from spreading through the growing city. But high winds ...