Finding it hard to breathe when you lay down is medically called orthopnea. Find a list of potential causes to help narrow down your overall risk here.

The death toll from a gas tanker truck explosion that happend last week in central Pakistan has jumped to 18, police and ...

President Trump has inherited an evolving chemical and biological threat landscape, but not one he hasn’t encountered before.

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The tingling, numbness, and pain of peripheral neuropathy generally stem from nerve damage in your hands and feet. The nerve damage—and the symptoms—generally start in your longest nerves, which is ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...

Optic neuritis (ON) is an inflammation that damages your optic nerve. It can cause vision loss and pain when you move your eyes. As the inflammation goes away, your symptoms usually get better.

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy is a treatment for epilepsy that involves a stimulator (or 'pulse generator') which is connected, inside the body, to the left vagus nerve in the neck. The stimulator ...

Britain's gas storage levels are "concerningly low" with less than a week of demand available, the operator of the country's largest gas storage site has warned. Plunging temperatures and high ...

Why are the UK's gas stocks so low? Going into the fall, Britain's gas storage facilities were only a maximum of two-thirds full, compared to Germany and Poland, which had filled their tanks to ...

Gas pump at a Valero gas station in Austin, Texas. Valero Energy Corp. is scheduled to release third quarter earnings later this week. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Gas prices saw a notable increase ...