Before Bernie Marcus cofounded the now-$343 billion home improvement chain Home Depot, he dreamed of becoming a doctor.Marcus, who died in November 2024 at age 95, enrolled in pharmacy school when his family couldn’t afford to send him to medical school. He would often skip classes to sell Amana freezers door-to-door, according to a memoir … Read more
We know that plant-based diets can be a good option for people looking to improve their health, and a new study based on real-world dietary practices reveals fresh insights on why that might be the case.The study followed a group of 200 healthy people from the greater region of Thessaloniki, Greece, who abstain from meat, … Read more
Updated Aug. 13, 2026, 7:54 p.m. ETPete Hegseth said in July the U.S. military will begin testing troops’ testosterone levels as a way to “optimize performance” on the battlefield − and mixed reactions have flooded the internet in the days and weeks since.The announcement came in the form of a memo and statement released by the … Read more
In 2025, 47,394 children received 150,026 leucovorin prescriptions. This represents a weekly spike of children with leucovorin prescriptions, from 734 to 5,858, a 700% increase. More prescriptions were given to children ages 6 to 11 living in the southern United States than in other regions. At the same time, the researchers didn’t observe changes in … Read more
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Thursday confirmed more measles cases in Iowa and Lafayette counties.The DHS said the number of confirmed cases rose from two on Tuesday to 15 as of Thursday morning, and that there were also six probable cases.Measles is a highly contagious disease that can be spread … Read more
A bat that swooped down and became tangled in a woman’s hair at Olympic National Park has tested positive for rabies, and park officials are now trying to find the woman and any other visitors who may have contracted the disease, which is almost always fatal.The entanglement happened around 2 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 9, … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Heavy drinking has been shown to raise mortality risk, but, at lower levels, what’s in your glass may also matter, a new study suggests.In recent research of data from 340,924 participants in the UK Biobank, wine was linked to lower mortality, while beer and spirits were tied … Read more
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to a sixth province, officials have said, a day after the head of the World Health Organization said the outbreak was on track to surpass the deadliest in history, which killed at least 11,000 people more than a decade ago.The current outbreak has … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! DNA recovered from centuries-old mummies in Chile has provided the strongest evidence yet that smallpox arrived in the Americas after European colonization.The recent research, published in the journal Science, centers on Chilean mummies whose ancient DNA yielded evidence of smallpox infections dating to the early colonial period.Geneticist … Read more
“No more operations,” he said.It was mid-January 2026, and my then-73-year-old husband, Mike Salmon, had just started bouncing back from a three-month ordeal of three operations related to aortic aneurysms, sepsis, and a terrifying descent into delirium tied to a stay in the intensive care unit. Now, after another potentially fatal aortic aneurysm and ambulance … Read more