People taking statins to reduce cholesterol may feel a false sense of security and overindulge in unhealthy foods, according to a new study. Statins are prescribed to reduce cholesterol and as a preventive measure for heart diseases. Millions of Americans are prescribed statins each year, either after a stroke or a heart attack.

Alex Graves, the director of the hit TV show ‘Game of Thrones’, has reportedly filed for divorce from his wife Sarah Graves citing irreconcilable differences.

Penticton RCMP have opened an active investigation after a body turned up Friday in a channel of water on the outskirts OK Falls Friday morning. Penticton RCMP received a call at 9 a.m. Friday of a male floating in the channel in OK Falls.

The Sudbury & District Health Unit is investigating a confirmed case of measles in a child in Greater Sudbury. Anyone who visited the following locations in Greater Sudbury on the dates and times listed below may have been exposed to measles:

Flooding on Peguis First Nation has forced the evacuation of 34 people from the community and damaged 50 homes. Water levels appeared to have crested Saturday, but the Manitoba government has sent 100 Tiger Tube dams to assist in flood-fighting efforts. The federal government and the community are managing the situation, and evacuations are being coordinated by the Manitoba Association …

NEW YORK Bearded dragons have joined the list of pets that can give you salmonella poisoning. In the past two years, 132 people in 31 states have been infected with a rare form of salmonella bacteria. About two dozen of the sick people said they’d handled bearded dragons — a popular lizard native to Australia.

Coral reefs have the unusual ability to adjust their inner functions to withstand the temperature of the warming ocean 50 times faster than would be possible through natural selection.

SpaceX is filing a legal challenge to the U.S. Air Force’s latest Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) contract with United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The long-term contract, which guarantees the purchase of 36 rocket cores from ULA to be used in national security launches, was granted to ULA on a sole-source basis without …

Tamera Mowry-Housley is showing off her slim post-baby body in the new issue of In Touch, where she’s flaunting her curves in a hot pink bikini.

This week a Pennsylvania couple decided to skip a surgery for their conjoined twins as the newborns were unlikely to survive the separation. Michelle Van Horne and Kody Stancombe of Indiana, Penn., felt the best thing was to keep their boys together.

Will anyone see next week’s solar eclipse? On April 29th, an annular solar eclipse occurs over a small D-shaped 500 kilometre wide region of Antarctica. This will be the second eclipse for 2014—the first was the April 15th total lunar eclipse—and the first solar eclipse of the year, marking the end of the first eclipse season. 2014 has the minimum …