For 50-plus years, students in grades 4, 8, and 12 have taken national standardized tests that assess reading and math proficiency and are designed to measure overall academic achievement. But long ...

Dermatologists remain concentrated in well-resourced, metropolitan communities, and persistent maldistribution is associated with longer travel and delayed access to dermatology for rural patients.

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More than a thousand written testimonies have been submitted in opposition to each of a pair of bills as advocates gear up to fight their passage Wednesday at the Capitol. The bills, one brought by ...

The first sign came when Deepanwita Dasgupta was 5 and started stumbling more while playing at her home in Bangalore in southern India.

Major research hospitals and prestigious universities snared a significant share of Philanthropy 50 gifts, but lesser known ...

Bedtime at the Johnson household has turned into a nightly battleground, and the weapon of choice is a tiny toothbrush. Like many parents of toddlers, Sarah Johnson finds herself dreading the moment ...

You are lying on the couch with a 102-degree fever, 26 weeks pregnant, watching your two-year-old methodically dump Cheerios ...

Before the advent of widespread and effective vaccines, the complication occurred enough in the U.S. that, in the 1960s, a doctor created a national registry of SSPE patients. Researchers now estimate ...

Warm weather’s finally here, and with any luck the snow is behind us. That means festival season is officially underway. I’m pulling together a collective calendar to capture it all—charity galas, ...

Measles causes complications — ranging from diarrhea to death — in 3 in 10 infected people, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Some are immediate, while others take weeks or ...

Looking to invest in a new smart speaker? Amazon's Alexa-enabled Echo devices offer a brilliant option, and with two new speakers added to the range, it's worth taking a look at what the brand has to ...