Stanford scientists discovered that a harmless skin bacterium triggers a powerful immune response. By tweaking a bacterial ...

ITV's programme True Crime Presents' third episode, titled A Murder Without Honour, follows the murder of 17-year-old British Pakistani girl Shafilea Ahmed, who was controlled and abused by her ...

Locals near a needle exchange site in a Bronx park are cheering a councilman’s proposal to require city health workers to collect hundreds of discarded syringes littering the ground. Oswald ...

Workers at “needle exchange” spots across the city may be forced to collect used drug syringes that end up ... You couldn’t walk through without seeing a needle on the floor,” he said.

Shortly after sunrise, John Gobbi stepped gingerly across a sidewalk in Boston’s South End strewn with dirty and discarded drug needles. Every so often his work boots crushed another syringe ...