Best practices, including checking public E. coli reports and keeping your head above water can keep you safe while swimming.

Scientist Saul Justine Newman debunks high-profile longevity research and antiaging “medicine” in a new book.

The practice of freediving is teaching physiologists how humans stretch their physical and mental limits, which in turn may improve treatments for lung and heart ailments.

DNA can voyage along intercellular highways called tunneling nanotubes. It’s a phenomenon that could potentially spread tumor DNA to healthy cells.

States with abortion bans are trending away from evidence-based miscarriage treatment that includes mifepristone, compared with states without bans.

Scientists still don’t know why Andes hantavirus is the only one shown to spread from person to person.

Donated uteruses transplanted into women without a womb can allow for successful pregnancy and birth.

Some rodents in South America carry arenaviruses and hantaviruses. Climate change may bring both to regions where neither is currently a threat.