When Sam Taylor was 11, he thought he only had chronic headaches. It turned out to be a low-grade optic glioma, a type of ...

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Medical procedures can so easily traumatize kids, but you can prevent it with a few focused talking points. Turn any medical ...

From dark costumes to ill-fitting masks, experts have shared the risky things they would never let their own children do over the spooky weekend.

Public health records for Ottawa and Toronto schools show that among the cohorts assessed this year, more than half of the ...

A clinical social worker who rehabilitates sex offenders in Farmington, New Mexico, has been practicing across the street from a day care for 25 years, raising concerns among some community members.

This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.

Health officials in the mid-Atlantic region have recently reported a rise in hand, foot and mouth disease, or HFMD. There ...

In 2000, trick-or-treaters paraded around Creighton University. Everyone was there, from Winnie the Pooh to a doctor and even ...

AI is changing what careers are possible for students interested in STEM subjects. WIRED spoke with five aspiring scientists ...