Former United States President Bill Clinton says there is a need for Liberians to know that there is an enormous amount of support and sympathy for them in the United States and has appealed to Liberians to be patient and not get discouraged.

The Population Reference Bureau has released the 2008 World Population Data Sheet, an excellent annual reference to world population and trends. Some highlights this year include: The demographic divide—the inequality...

After a day of slow progress at the Minnesota State Capitol, lawmakers and Gov. Tim Pawlenty began making headway late this afternoon, reaching agreement on the health-care portion of an overall budget package.

Borrowing and sharing of prescription medications is a serious medical and public health concern. A survey of nearly 7,500 women of reproductive age found that this is common practice among more than one-third of this population, according to a new report

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces funding for the new NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Program. Epigenetic processes control normal growth and development, and epigenomics is a study of epigenetic processes at a genome-wide scale. The NIH will inve