Health

Is the opioid crisis just getting worse?

As the level of carbon dioxide in the air rises because of climate change, scientists are trying to pin down how plants are impacted. There's evidence that it's changing many important plants we eat.

With 113 locations in the U.S., Brain Balance says its drug-free approach has helped tens of thousands of children. But experts say there's insufficient proof for its effectiveness.

In its latest revision to an international disease classification manual, the World Health Organization said that classifying "Gaming Disorder" as a separate condition will "serve a public health purpose for countries to be better prepared to identify this issue."

Changing Rural Narratives: a Ground Level Conversation in Grand Rapids

Seeking solutions for the opioid crisis, policymakers in Illinois and many other states are looking to expand access to marijuana for chronic pain sufferers.

Minnesota health insurers are proposing mostly lower premium rates for 2019 for the state's individual health insurance market, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Scientists and National Institutes of Health officials met with alcohol company executives and appeared to solicit money from them in violation of government policy. The NIH canceled the study.

Thirty-seven people have been sickened recently by cyclospora infections. State health officials say they're focusing on a cluster of illnesses at a Minneapolis restaurant, and vegetable trays sold by local convenience stores.

Rinsing foods doesn't always prevent foodborne illness and can sometimes make the risks worse. Here's what the science says about which foods you should run water over and why.

You can help prevent suicide, researchers say, by knowing the signs and reaching out. More boys and men in the U.S. take their own lives than women and girls, but that difference has narrowed.

An anesthesiologist who taught himself statistics identified flaws in an influential study that claimed to prove the Mediterranean diet has cardiovascular benefits. The 2013 paper is being retracted.

Minnesota is one of the 20 states that have drug-induced homicide laws allowing a prosecutor to charge someone who delivers or provides illegal drugs to a victim of an overdose death.

Women diagnosed with breast cancer often have a combined treatment of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Now a new nine-year study published in the New England Journal of Medicine determined that for some women, chemo can be replaced with a hormone-blocking drug treatment.

Two hundred medications have depression as a possible side effect. Now, a new study finds people who take these drugs are, in fact, more likely to be depressed. The more drugs you take, the higher the risk.

Larry Kudlow, the prominent economic commentator who joined the Trump administration this year as the president's top economic adviser, is recovering after suffering a "very mild" heart attack, the White House said Tuesday.

With teen pregnancy rates in some communities stubbornly high, one school district is trying something different: staff the schools with a midwife.

After they lose access to high school sports, young women -- especially young women of color -- generally get less exercise than they should, a study suggests, and far less exercise than young men get.

Teachers had a chance to practice starts, stops, turn signals and other skills.