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A new study has recently documented the advantages of organic food and crops over their conventional counterparts. The findings suggested that organic foods and crops have 18 to 69 percent higher concentrations of antioxidant compounds and the levels of pesticide residues were usually 10-fold to 100-fold lower.

Citing an anthrax scare and a recurring problem with safety, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday shut down two research labs and stopped shipping highly dangerous germs to other labs. One of the closed facilities was involved an incident last month that could have accidentally exposed workers in three labs to anthrax. A second, previously undisclosed problem …

Police say a woman was stabbed to death at a Merrillville, IN hospital and a man believed to be her husband was found murdered in Gary. According to authorities, it was around 12:45 this morning when hospital staff heard an altercation in the room of an elderly woman and when they entered her room they found her fatally stabbed.

A Beaver County teacher is accused of having sex with two of her students. Twenty-six-year-old Tiffany Leiseth was a substitute for the New Brighton Area School District when police say she sent nude photos of herself to the high school seniors days before graduation. The 18-year-old students also told police they had sex with her at her home in Moon …

The boyfriend of Glee actress Becca Tobin has been found dead in a hotel room. 35-year-old Matt Bendik’s body was discovered by a maid on Thursday afternoon in the Hotel Monaco in Philadelphia.

A new study found that pornography triggers the same brain activity in individuals with so-called “sex addicts” as drugs do in the brains of drug addicts. The study, published in the journal PLOS One, was led by researchers at the University of Cambridge and used functional MRIs to get a glimpse into the brain of 19 men affected by compulsive …

Axelle Despiegelaere has taken the notion that everyone gets his or her 15 minutes of fame to a whole new level. The 17-year-old Belgian fan became a viral sensation after she was photographed in the stands when Belgium faced South Korea in the World Cup, and she even signed a contract with French cosmetics company L’Oreal. She also appeared in …

According to a study published in Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, apples have the ability to work as an aphrodisiac and can improve sex for women.

In the largest and most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, MA, find that vasectomy is associated with a small increased risk of prostate cancer, and a larger increased risk for advanced or lethal prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is a major cause of cancer-related deaths in men in the US, where vasectomy …

Some 32 years after he went missing, the body of aspiring mountain guide Patrice Hyvert has been found, frozen, on a glacier in the Mont Blanc range. Just 23 at the time he vanished during a solo climb of one of the Mont Blanc massif’s main peaks, Hyvert was found last Thursday on the Talefre glacier with his gear (including …

Khloe Kardashian feels like she’s “been pregnant for six years.” The 30-year-old reality TV star, who filed for divorce from her estranged husband Lamar Odom in December – believes people have been claiming she’s expecting her first child for over half a decade and she admits, at first, she struggled to deal with the false baby rumours.