Health & Safety

The National Eating Disorders Association has indefinitely taken down a chatbot after the bot produced diet and weight loss advice. The nonprofit had already closed its human-staffed helpline.

Everyone knows that red means danger, but how did purple become a cautionary color? At an EPA conference in the late 1990s, attendees nearly came to blows over color coding on the Air Quality Index.

Population growth has long been a source of worry in India, which now has more people than China: 1.46 billion residents. But some experts are optimistic about the impact of this population boom.

Book bans in schools can violate federal civil rights laws if they create a hostile environment for students. The Education Department will have a new point person to talk to schools about bans.

A program in Seattle is helping people in drug and alcohol recovery overcome barriers to medical care in an effort to keep them off the street. A key piece is battling stigma from medical providers.

Several North Carolina universities have recently published studies related to prostate cancer in different ethnic and racial groups. 

Most American kids quit playing sports by age 11. That means a lot of kids are missing out on some of the huge benefits of sports, including spacial awareness, physical activity and team skills.

In a strongly worded ruling, a federal judge said that minors who filed suit against Florida's gender-affirming care bans would "suffer irreparable harm." An appeal to the injunction is expected.

The World Stem Cell Summit is being held this week at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem.