CHICAGO -- Fred Y. Sasaki put on a red tie and his gray suit.

He was not a man who typically dressed up, but tonight was special. At 80 years old, Sasaki had built a successful career as a dry cleaner. He had just spent the day with his grandson....

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- If you think today's world can be a perilous place for children, imagine life in the 1950s.

Seat belts in cars were not widely used, much less required. A kid wearing a bike helmet would have been mocked mercilessly. The ...

CHICAGO -- Like the other fourth-graders at King Lab, Jennifer Dreller's daughter was discreetly weighed during gym class as part of a routine fitness assessment at the Evanston, Ill., school. But the experience took a toll on the 10-year-old's ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- On any given day inside Mercy San Juan Medical Center's neuro-intensive care unit, a 5-foot-6-inch-tall robot with a computer screen can be seen roaming the halls.

The robot, named RP-VITA (Remote Presence Virtual ...

CHICAGO -- Until recently, I didn't know that I could use stem cells to help heal my bum shoulder. Perhaps that's because I don't use said shoulder for hurling baseballs or footballs at speeds approaching the sound barrier for obscene amounts of ...

Attention swimmers: More than half of the public pools tested in a new study contained bacterial evidence that someone may have pooped in the pool.

Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked with state and local ...