Food additives are so ubiquitous that billions of people knowingly or unknowingly consume them every day. Many food additives offer no nutritional value, but are legal to be used in many countries, including the United States.

The line of sparkling glassware sitting on top of your hotel fridge looks clean. The glasses even have a paper cap to signal you've received a fresh set ready for your use. But there are good reasons you shouldn't fill them at the bathroom sink, no matter how thirsty you are.

You need to know a few things about those mysterious misting machines before your next shopping trip.

Few things unsettle homeowners more than a trail of ants invading the kitchen, but crushing them may only make things worse.

Not a single case of measles has been detected in Southern Nevada this year, despite infections across the country reaching their highest level in more than three decades, the head of the Southern Nevada Health District said on Thursday.

When yellow jackets, a species of wasps, come buzzing around, they aren't usually nice—they're known to be defensive, aggressive, and very likely to sting. But rather than just run and hide, you can be proactive in making sure these pesky insects stay away from your house.

With the summer sun baking through our windows, trash inevitably gets smelly fast. With that can come an unwelcome influx of fruit flies. Despite their tiny size, these pesky insects are mighty in their ability to linger for days on end.

One of life's summer joys is being able to throw open windows and catch a cool summer breeze. But how do you keep mosquitoes away from windows?

Drinking alcohol is widely prevalent in the United States despite its well-recognized deleterious health sequelae. Alcohol comes in various forms (e.g., beer, wine, rum, whisky, etc.), but all of them contain ethanol; thus, the health risks are the same regardless of the form.

Most of us first heard the term “herd immunity” during COVID, but the concept of immunizing the population to minimize the threat of a major outbreak is far from new.

An important advisory committee to the federal government has voted this week to withdraw its support for flu shots containing the preservative thimerosal.

Dr. Manoj Sharma, a Professor of Social and Behavioral Health and Internal Medicine, answers queries on Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).