Nearly 90 children are dead and dozens of others in serious condition following an outbreak of mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis in a north Indian state over the past week, officials say Thursday

Seventy-nine children are dead and dozens of others in serious condition following an outbreak of mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis in a north Indian state over the past week, officials say Thursday.

Local newspapers report that the death toll could be much higher, as many casualties are going unreported, according to The Associated Press

An anthrax outbreak kills hundreds of cattle in the Great Plains and leaves ranchers worried about financial devastation.

More than 300 animals in North Dakota are killed by anthrax in what officials call the worst outbreak among livestock in state history. In South Dakota, at least 200 cattle are dead. Two ranches in Texas are quarantined after anthrax was found in cattle, horses and deer, officials say

A new study finds that children ages three to five who eat one additional serving of French fries per week increase their risk of breast cancer as adults by 27 percent.

"Researchers are finding more evidence that diet early in life could play a role in the development of diseases in women later in life," says Dr. Karin Michels, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School, who led the study

Stem Cell Sciences, a medical research company recently, has secured a license to a new technique for growing brain cells.

The license comes after company academic partners became the first in the world to create a pure batch of cells that could be capable of becoming tissue for the brain