Blood pressure readings are a key to evaluating your risk of cardiovascular disease. But a new study finds that even small missteps in how they are taken can significantly skew the results.

Researchers found that two individuals of a type of comb jelly can fuse and become one with a shared nervous system and ...

Lawsuits filed by 14 attorneys general argue that TikTok knowingly exacerbates the youth mental health crisis and places ...

A new report finds that LGBTQ+ women in the U.S. experience high rates of trauma, mental illness, and other health conditions. And they're less likely to seek medical care.

Climate change hasn't increased the total number of hurricanes hitting the U.S., but it is making dangerous storms more ...

Wiping out smallpox had an unintended consequence: the rise of mpox in the past few years. Here's the story — starting with ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The weapons supervisor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the ...

In 1990, Tennessee Ernie Ford was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Also in 1990, singer Eddie Vedder arrived in Seattle to audition for a band that would become Pearl Jam.

After his father was killed by Israeli settlers raiding his village in the central West Bank, he says, 15-year-old Noor Assi ...

As Israel marked one year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, the war is expanding. In Gaza and Lebanon, Monday was a day of airstrikes and evacuation orders.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, who's in Raleigh, N.C. FEMA has been kept busy with Hurricane Helene as Milton heads to Florida.

Only a week in office and the mayor of a small Mexican town is assassinated -- as cartel violence continues to spiral out of control.