The ancient Greeks considered Dionysus the 12th Olympic god. He was not taken seriously by his father Zeus nor by most of the ...

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that ...

Typhon, or Typhoeus as he was also called, was a monstrous, serpentine creature with a hundred heads that could shoot fire ...

Dionysus: Although not one of the original Olympians ... Miracles and Healing in the Roman World In Matthew's gospel, Jesus' birth is heralded by the heavenly portent of a star rising in the ...

Birth control, or contraception, is a device, medication, or procedure that helps prevent pregnancy. Types include barrier methods, hormonal birth control pills, intrauterine devices (IUDs), and ...

Women in the United States are having fewer children, with the country’s birth rate falling to an almost record low last year, preliminary data show. Roughly 3.6 million babies were born in the ...

On Monday morning, Noor Abdalla, the wife of Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, shared that she had given birth to their first child, and that Khalil’s request ...

Immigration authorities denied an urgent request by Mahmoud Khalil to be temporarily released from detention, under monitoring, so he could attend the birth of his first child. His wife ...

As former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), we have spent our careers protecting ...