An Oregon woman left her dentist’s office with an entirely new accent.

The guilty pleas of two students in a Massachusetts school harassment case this week thrust the spotlight back on bullying in the United States and abroad.

A new study finds that foreign-born Hispanics living in the U.S. experience significantly less stress than American-born Hispanics.

House Republicans overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to pass a bill permanently prohibiting federal funding of abortion, addressing one of their chief social objectives.

Medical research gets a major boost from Bill and Melinda Gates.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, asthma cases are on the rise. New statistics show that people diagnosed with asthma in the United States grew by 4.3 million between 2001 and 2009.

Students at 22 Orange County schools may have to wait until the end of the week before they can return to their cafeterias after a cockroach infestation forced the kids out last week.

The use of mammograms has dipped since a medical task force made controversial recommendations that women in their 40s may not need to get breast cancer screenings every year.

A federal appeals court has lifted a ban on federal funding for stem cell research.   

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee is unanimously recommending approval of a second new treatment–in as many days–for hepatitis C genotype 1 infection in adults with liver damage who have not been treated or whose treatment failed.