More people now die from drug abuse than traffic accidents, according to data from the United States government. While preventable deaths have been going down in most categories, deaths due to drugs have double...

There are words we just don't use in public, words so racially charged that just uttering them could start a fight and label the user a racist, homophobe or worse—unless the word is used online. That seem...

This May, 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer of Buffalo, N.Y., posted a video for the It Gets Better Project on YouTube, an effort to encourage and reassure troubled and potentially suicidal gay youth. "Love yourself,...

Residents of the United Kingdom would rather lose flushing toilets than have their access to Facebook taken away, according to a new study by the London Science Museum. Fresh fruits and veggies are more expenda...

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Corporations long have used college campuses to market their wares, but now many companies are taking a new tack: hiring influential students to push their products for them. Businesses such as Microsoft ferret...

More than half of 10th graders have used alcohol in the past year; more than a quarter have smoked marijuana, according to a recent study. These are figures that parents readily believe are true, but when it co...

We all know college is outrageously expensive, and it seems to be getting pricier by the week. With tuition growing like kudzu, it's too bad there aren't coupons or discounts available on Groupon or…Wait....

African-American children are more than twice as likely to suffer from common food allergies than their Caucasian piers, particularly when it comes to dangerous peanut allergies; but there are some strange disc...