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Skye McCole Bartusiak, best known for her role in “The Patriot” as Mel Gibson’s daughter, has died at 21 years old. The cause of death is still unknown. Her mother, Helen McCole Bartusiak, told CNN that Bartusiak had recently suffered from epileptic seizures, and her mother said she believed Bartusiak “had a seizure and choked and nobody was there.”

Crawling into a bed with bugs is a creepy thought… but it’s a problem that’s becoming more common in the city. A COMPAS Research survey of Canadian Health Inspectors says Canada is seeing a 20 per cent increase in bed bug inquires compared to the same period last year.

After rising steadily for more than 10 years, the proportion of U.S. kids defined as obese due to a large waist circumference held steady between 2003 and 2012, according to a new analysis of national data.

Four people died Sunday afternoon in a plane crash near Sedona that also caused a fire, according to officials.

The death of an Ohio teen after eating caffeine powder prompted the United States Food and Drug Administration to issue a warning about possible dangers of consuming the product.

Americans trust word-of-mouth and personal recommendations from doctors far more than provider quality data coming from the government or third parties.

Gilead’s controversial Hepatitis C drug Sofosbuvir (brand name Sovaldi) is back in the news again, this time not over its cost, but for successfully clearing Hepatitis C in patients with HIV. Hepatitis C is a contagious liver disease which can last anywhere from several weeks to a lifetime. Infection with HCV is often undiagnosed, with an estimated 50 percent of …

Pro-Palestinian French youth have clashed with police, in a second day of demonstrations, after defying a ban on protests against Israel’s Gaza offensive. Denouncing Israel’s escalating military offensive, several hundred young people went on a rampage, setting fire to cars, pillaging stores and attacking two synagogues in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, home to a large Jewish community.

Science comes to dating: you can now definitively tell if the stranger in front of you is looking for a romantic connection, or simply wants sex. It’s all in their eye movement, scientists reveal.

The European Union’s European Commission thinks free games with in-app purchases shouldn’t be called “free,” and has been pushing Apple and Google to change how they represent those apps to buyers. Google has capitulated, and now the EU is calling out Apple for failing to take action, although Apple thinks it’s already doing more than other companies to keep consumers …

Secretary of State John Kerry made the Sunday morning news show rounds to outline the United States’ case—citing American and Ukrainian intelligence reports and social media that “obviously points a very clear finger at the [pro-Russian] separatists”—that Russia was responsible for the attack that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, killing 298 people.