A new study shows a statistically significant link between industrial release of mercury and increased rates of autism in children at a time when more Americans are using compact fluorescent light bulbs that can release mercury if thrown in the trash instead of being carefully recycled.

The study published in the journal Health & Place by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, showed that there is a statistically significant association between autism risk and the distance from a mercury source. It is the first time such a link has been published in scientific literature

Over 140 people were rushed to local hospitals in Thailand's northern Ban Luang district after eating fish balls thought to be made from the highly poisonous puffer fish, according to reports Sunday.

In Nan province, the villagers ate soup containing the fish balls at a funeral. After the funeral, guests started vomiting, complaining of numbness in the tongue and shortness of breath

Omega-3 intake during the last months of pregnancy boosts an infant's cognitive and motor development, a study says.

A team supervised by Université Laval researchers Gina Muckle and Éric Dewailly conducted tests on a group of infants at 6 and 11 months. Researchers measured docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid included in the development of neurons and retinas, in the umbilical cord blood of 109 infants

A recent study discovered that a vegan diet - no meat, no dairy, and no gluten -- significantly decreases the risk of heart ailments, alleviating the risk for those with rheumatoid arthritis, whose arteries are blocked by the disease.

Scientists from the Karolinska Institute derived their study from an experiment that involved 58 patients divided into two groups: the vegan diet group and the non-vegan diet group

A 31-year-old Long Island woman delivered a set of identical triplets, an event that doctors say happen once in 200 million births. The babies, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn, developed from a single egg and placenta, were given only a 30 percent chance of all three surviving.

The triplets' mother, Allison Penn, was impregnated with just one embryo through in vitro fertilization but the embryo split in half and then one half of that split again. The couple, Penn, 31, said she and her husband Tom, 46 had been trying for four years to have a baby