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The Dallas nurse who was infected with Ebola while treating a Liberian man has been identified as Nina Pham.

A new study reveals family interaction during mealtimes may impact children s’ weight. Scientists set up video cameras in the homes of low income and minority families for one week’s worth of meals.

Login details to over 7 million accounts on file sharing service Dropbox have been stolen, with the hacker requesting Bitcoin for the disclosure of information. The details were posted in a Pastebin document, followed by several more posts which were since revealed to be fakes.

Extra pounds cause the liver to age faster, potentially explaining why obesity is linked to diseases like liver cancer and insulin resistance, new research suggests.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have found no evidence linking physical activity and development of depressive symptoms in adolescence.

A Sudanese medical official in his fifties who was working for the UN in Liberia has died of Ebola in a hospital in Leipzig, Germany. The UN employee from Liberia who was transported to Leipzig last week after contracting Ebola died overnight at St. Georg Hospital, according to the St Georg clinic.

A home in an upscale Weldon Spring neighborhood that has been overrun by brown recluse spiders is finally getting rid of the eight legged creatures. Crews have covered the house, which is located near Whitmoor Country Club, with a giant tent and pumped in poison gas to kill the spiders.

Broccolli continues to be known as a superfood that holds essential nutrients. Yet recent findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveal that this vegetable could help to reduce symptoms associated with autism.

Social media sensation Jessica Vanessa is making a living doing the dance move Miley Cyrus made famous. And it is really paying off. The 22-year-old from Florida quit her job as a teaching assistant to make Internet “twerking” videos full-time.

Human clinical trials of an experimental Canadian Ebola vaccine are underway, with officials saying that if successful the vaccine could be shipped to affected areas of West Africa within a few months.

Nobody is sure where Nigel the parrot has been for the past several years but he’s back with his owners in California. The British accent he left with when he vamoosed is gone. Now he’s speaking Spanish.